First there is I and me.
Second there is you,
although you would have it
the other way around.
Third there are the others:
she and he, her and him,
the theys and thems
surrounding me and you.
Don’t let us make this demonstrative,
counting up all the these and those.
What does the little boy want?
To be loved and kissed
or to be left alone?
The infinite forlorn isolation
of everybody, nobody and some,
sometimes.
Beware the interrogating relatives
that which [we] who and to whom.
To whom are you speaking?
The knee-jerk, defensive, intensive, reflexive
speaking for myself, according to yourself,
formally and formerly oneself.
What pain are you avenging?
which makes me passive
in all that is my-my, you, your and what is ours.
This is the year we were naturally reciprocal
with each other,
with one another,
distributive rather than possessive:
either, each, neither and any.
Maybe and possibly.
Mine and yours, you and me,
first and second,
what we make of us.
From The Writer’s Guide to Common Grammar