Issue 14: Michael Aird
You Have to be a Notoriously Frantic Epistemologist, Second Only to Paranoiacs and Analysts as a Reader of Signs and Wonders
Do you love me for myself alone
or for my yellow hair?
In a kind of Hegelian twist
Tristan is on the road with Iseult
shooting up potions of dopamine &
noradrenaline enhancer
And while it hasn’t yet been conclusively shown
that human attachment
relies on the same hormonal machinery
as that used by voles,
it does seem plausible that such a system
would be highly conserved
Jwala and I have come here today
to facilitate a session
on the perpetual possession of the good
or
your astral guide to that on-going
composite unity
The key issue here
is whether she is experiencing an orgasm
or something else
More specifically,
in his hands I saw a great golden spear
which
when he pulled it out made me utter several moans,
sounding more than anecdotal
Can’t orgasms be God-given
and not return to their flaccid state
Buses give me erections when I sit on a seat
above a wheel
Whenever I watch the City Council meeting
on public access
I usually get rock hard
This is the very ecstasy of love
whose violent property fordoes itself
and leads the will to desperate undertakings
Like as in he personally
bioassayed hundreds of psychoactive compounds
but not alone mind you
the godfather possible lifelong between
a literal “standing in oneself”
and a “standing beyond oneself in another”
In this coupling, the autopoietic conduct
of an organism A
becomes a source of deformation
for an organism B
and the compensatory behaviour
of organism B acts, in turn,
as a source of deformation of organism A
etc.
Which is as much to say in my sexiest French accent:
it takes deux to tango
How ironic, then, that Michelangelo’s own
“broken column”
now sought serene anchor in the inner man
of Vittoria Colonna
In the room the women come and go
but Sophia sits stunned
wondering what the author of War and Peace
would do if once again
he was wrapped up in a blanket and back
in Pirogovo
He seems to me equal to gods that man
whoever he is who doesn’t mind really
Screw that vanilla stuff, though—
I, on the other hand, am a straight female
who was a dominatrix for a while
and out of all the jobs I’ve had
I loved it the most
So what you actually want
is to possess your lover
in his or her freedom
like knocking at the door already dressed
in the midnight prowler
But seriously Dan
is it, as Hegel would have put it,
the excess of the beloved, that which
eludes my grasp
that’s the cause of this shaking that grips me
greener than grass
Before addressing the question of how Plato
can be applied to counselling
you might mention that while structurally plastic
the state is still one
of universal value
Dear Abelard
you cocktail of ancient neuropeptides
I guess
Thinking off of you now
my melancholy and most faithful sweetheart
love itself
Michael Aird’s current musical obsession = Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1. Current print diversion = André Breton: The Anthology of Black Humor. Current YouTube distraction = Anything really by John Oliver.
