Corporeal Punishment
insomnia's
disquietude
proves
the hanging judge
the
jury hung dead on its decision
the
word on its lips
consonant,
obscene
the
physician's diagnosis
survives
at last all scrutiny
the
molested man convicts himself
violates
his body as it ceases to exist
his
priest and therapist swearing oaths
to
Sartre, God and de Beauvoir
the
essence of nonexistence
the
constellated philosophies
the
planetarium that domes
a
nightmare copulation
full
of blessed pomposities
and
even Jean Genet is blushing
as
they finger you in darkness
with
proof to show you owe
the
debts they accumulate
as
they thread you with their seeming
stitchery
of baby blankets
in
the switchery of their roles
confabulating
your prosecution
until
you confess against yourself
well,
it's over now and there's nothing
but
the calculation with which it all began
the
books cooked and boiling in your brain
speaking
of ontology
by
which the authors mean
your
lack of right to be
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