Damn You Leibniz!!!
And all your cronies
yeah newton too
Lagrange
You are strange
you got your rackets going
now i have to rack my brains
oh i'm in pain
you mathematician
drive me to
drink and derive
I've had it up to here
with your limits
they squeeze me tight
until i can't breathe
which sends me
to L'Hôpital

2010

As a child
my godmother took me to see a show
before I knew what centrifugal force is
the motorcycles go round and round
in a cylinder
I'm on top looking down
she also took me to see
a magician saw a lady in half

years later, crossing a ferry on Vancouver, BC
In another continent
I saw a whale
bought a book on magic
perhaps I was looking for
my innocence
a believe that magic exists
what I found were rude pentagrams
evil hunger for power
beads and shells from the Caribbean

it never talks about how a letter
could make me cry or angry

never mentioned how two wheels
can travel in a sphere or cylinder

it did not tell me what my dreams meant
when I saw a man whipped a fish into his exact self
and the sparks of live wire
thrashing like eels above a lake.

it never talked about the flood I saw in my dream
and finding myself soaked with tears up on waking

it dare not mention the lost that I would have to suffer
the most incredible disappearing act of you.

2001 Summer