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The titled page asks whether thought begins through relation to someone else.

The poem makes youth a question about consciousness rather than age. It suggests that having a thought may depend on turning outward, with another person becoming the condition for self-awareness.

Headed 'Young,' the poem dates the very birth of thought to other people: 'Did You Even / Have a thought / Until you / thought about / Somebody Else.' Selfhood, it suggests, has no thinking until it turns outward.