They came here to the place of their old bora ground / Where now the many white men hurry about like ants.

This suggests that neopronouns in general and nounself pronouns in particular are used to express something very individual about the selector.

Then I have little messengers racing like mad through the galleries of my head ; spinning long yarns, and wearing fabrics rich and soft as the balzarine which I so much covet, until I shut my eyes and stop my ears and whisk away, with the 'wonderful lamp' safely hidden in my own brown braids.

He dialed Kathy to be sure she was okay and see if the blues arrived. She was crying when she picked up the phone. “Kathy, honey, I'm here. It'll be okay. Are the police there?”