Wednesday, January 25, 2012

3422. EUCLID

EUCLID
(crazy to Hell, 1964)
That parallel postulate we sang of
in 9th grade  -  it is still going on. Joe
Vouglas and all the rest of the Michael
Simonet crowd with their gestures in
the air : 'infinite to infinite, these lines 
will never meet.' Both negation and its
non-Euclidean armor  -  all that roomy
notion in one fell swoop. 'You can't be
sure of anything, you know.' I always
assumed there was too much doubt
and dark matter for that. Your parallel
postulate is positive prattle. Oh then
how proud I was as a long 
sorry table grew silent.
-
In this elevated corner, alone and
nowhere at all, all the voices and
noises seem to converge. It is all
so maddening to me  -  enough
to drive me just crazy to Hell.

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