The Missing Shade

Is the self 
“a mere bundle
of perceptions”

If Hume’s right,
are the rest of us 
wrong 

When stimuli exits, 
do we then 
disappear

Existence abeyant,  
too weak 
—to live on

(Villanova University Library: April, 2021)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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