poem30 Mar 2020 06:23 am
F. J. Bergmann
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. There is some reason in the universes— there must be—which brings me to you, sweetheart, my princess of pure and untrammeled reason, I can almost feel you beside me, denunciation membranes pulsing, as I write this letter, and I even dare to imagine the pleasant yet hazardous scent of your lurker perfume bombarding me with mixed signals. Last night in my dreams I saw you convulse on the dimensional launching pier. The aether wind was blowing long shards of obsidian through the intricate jacquard of your hair, and your multitude of eyes held the fading, actinic sunlight. I was speechless, deliquescing slowly as I watched your twelve auxiliary monitors looking somewhere far away, perhaps back into the mad reality from which you claimed to have come. You are a remarkably elegant contrivance, I thought as I saw you, onslaught of a vision that I could never find in anyone or anything else. In a paroxysm of unseemly compulsion, I slowly began to walk toward you, and then you finally turned to me, lurching as you revolved like some single- sun system where all the orbits are decaying. I noticed that others had been watching you as well as they could, given their awkward weapons of contravention and the radioactive glare emanating from your slim and girlish figure. “Do you know her?†they asked me, pointing at you with their tendrils of office and repeating hot gossip about your mating practices, gleaned from the yellow journalism of an adjacent spiral arm, in jealous whispers. Then you smiled at me, incidentally bedazzling them with the sheer resplendence of the array of crystalline teeth lining your primary feeding maw that have long captivated me, as you swiftly disabled their entire planetary defense array, all the while ignoring their ineffectual protests, and I simply answered with the even- simpler expedient of pointing out that you were, as we chatted, biting their heads off. The truth is that I have always known you (“Better than I know myself,†as a platitude goes), known you perfectly, since you are one of my many—nay, infinite— incarnations. I am waiting for you to devour me, here at the end of time, that we may begin the dance of eternal renewal and decay again. Fondly, Annihilated
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