monk's mutterance

so the people who
"talk to themselves"
aren't so bad after all
says my feeble mind
to my all-too-eager tongue -
after all, i just
finished talking to myself -
after all, who's to say?
perhaps i'm not
talking to myself
but to a
universal audience -
it's out there,
it's been thought,
that is to say
it's been created,
so now it's
part of the whole
without which
wholeness does not exist -
who's to say, after all?