Do'in' the h.r.*

June 14, 1993

 

 

I perform Marathon dancing
1990's style
Skillfully
A dance
old as civilization
A dance
of humility:
II.
I am humbled before a disordered valve.
I become my anus
I watch the world through this faulty fissure
A pocketwatch with a disordered escapement
four cardinal signs dim my view:
tumor
rubor
dolor
calor

And I go from godlessness to God:
I worship, today, this centerpost of animal civility
this construction of genius
this differential calculator
this Daedalian triumph
Society's totality
contained in an eyecup
Achilles' hidden spot

Wound this place:
revolution ceases
dayandnight are one
a moment, forever
all thought, focused
on this wondrous imperfection.
III.
It was only last week
three lifetimes ago
I thought of nothing but
truth
beauty
art
woman.
Today:
I think only of my anus.

* hemorrhoidal roll