Voodoo Intuitions
True evil always discerns what you care for —
more quickly than love, it knows what you dare for.
True love is impulsive, implosive, impendent;
intuitive and perplexing and repentant —
yet never more knowing or caring
(never more reckless or careless)
than evil's discerning eye.
What judgment can be made?
In what book is the judgment made?
We see the light pass clearly through the glass,
yet still the pages fade.
See how the pages turn?
The words appear and disappear
and reappear in smoke —
but what does the message mean
when the final word's a joke?
True chaos always knows its master;
time is reframed by time
and sex is infested with sex —
now as your heart beats faster,
everything simple grows slowly complex.
Through the long dormant season
everyone's sullen and silent:
the right, and the wrong, and the dead;
men who must only listen
care nothing for what is said.
See what the words have wreaked? Our souls
are not passions to be carelessly piqued,
nor iron in the fire to be easily wrought;
we are intemperate, yes, yet steel,
no matter what pleasures we've sought.
Oh see that girl with the red dress on!
She knows how to shake it, just for me!
Love comes by surprise, by unreason,
by unfeasible touch in a hot, dry season —
so cool, cool to the touch,
the touch of unpressable flesh pressed,
the rise of unraisable hope risen.
True love is impulsive, implosive, impendent;
intuitive and perplexing and repentant —
yet never more knowing or caring
(always more knowing and caring)
than evil's discerning eye.
rcs.
6th draft: 04/22/05
©1980 Ronald C. Southern
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." Cato the Elder
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