THE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE HAS LOST 100% 0F ITS ORIGINAL VOCABULARY

Which is more me

the lemon drop melting in my mouth
or the spit drying on my finger?

a mangled, still-warm severed thumb
or a well-formed stool in my sigmoid colon?

my forgotten ideas about the syntax of "The Blue Juniata"
or the unconscious grammar common to us all?

Which is more me

I, lying blankly here,
or this yellowed paper in your hand?