Communicable
we wrote enthusiastically
of our detachment
in cafés, shrugging
off the exhilaration
of our ennui
and connecting
associations of negligible
nutritive value considering
that nibbling isn’t
the sine qua non
of alimentation.
Tho the process of making
lines and assignations
seemed more than momentary
but less than antediluvian,
we were simplified and
satisfied with the location
and the certainty of minor
equations, in balance
post hoc ergo propter hoc
subsequent to the satiety of
antinomian certainty and
purpose granted
to autonomic
functions , we dispatched
there in accidental
fatalism what we drew upon
the table and served
each of us to the design.
of exquisite corpses
produced by our
chance arrangement
and caught out at the
moment of art,
that coincided beyond
the casual sorting
that makes everything
meaningful
in spite of itself.
like genius is contagious
but not virulent.
you walked away,
and I thought,
I know you,
I know,
I
and found in that
something
but nothing
to fear.