Psoriasis keeps you thinking. Strategies of concealment ramify and self-examination is endless. You are forced to the mirror, again and again; psoriasis compels narcissism, if we can suppose a Narcissus who did not like what he saw.

          John Updike, from At War with My Skin

I am you
and I must become you
I have been you
and I must become you
I am always you
I must become you

                     Diane di Prima, excerpt from Ave