Conversation with Myself

FOR WALT WHITMAN

“I finally figured out the whole free will versus determinism thing.

Oh? Which one is correct? Are you a slave, or are you free?

Neither. There is no Me to be a slave, and there is no Me to be free.

Exactly! And now, beloved slave, you are free! Your own shackles can hold you no longer. Go, live and move and have your being within me, and do what you will. It is all Good.

Thank you, master!”

–I AM