Benthams’ Calculus
By Jonathan Huey
I offer a defiant variation:
“Berlin has placed mankind
under the governance of two
equally insane masters,
the criminal larva, and crocodile ecstasy,”
I endeavor to enchant your mind
with a new systematic etiquette
beyond your ethography
what does the eunuch know of pleasure?
what does the masochist not know of pain?
The collective bestial awareness
a mentality cut-off from meaning
beyond cyanide reflection
beyond temporal bone
Spasmodic writhing
pestilential influence
from Chicago to East London,
and coffers of erectile teeth,
the bankers of fantasia-
the calculative eye
a poetic flinch,
pyramid froth
of trench warfare,
incandescent gases
of Valhalla
secret society
of the common leech,
needles in
vertical position,
these variations I offer,
as a salute to creativity
beyond a bipolar understanding
of human existence,
repeating decimals
are rhino droppings
in mathematical mind,
and I am a soybean,
beyond pleasure and pain.
©2000 Jonathan Huey
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