Non Zero Elegy
vrajavala goundar a.k.a./dr bobbi anne white 7/2/2001
Mermaids diving, breaths spewing a wellspring of consciousness: Bizarre colors, geometric designs bombastic Inner discovery: Brother Thief embezzled golden fortune! Cain ghosts de-busted: David’s his/story. Oldest brother cultivated rivalry, jealousy Salem Witch Hunt merely a fresh memory Intrigue, quilted woven deceit Blinding pact, out-of-sight conspiracy Cain and Abel-ia: Non-zero game theory puzzle: Esoteric myth built on “trusting relationships”… Sh/c/would Sister figure into the script? Broad/sideswept into gullibility Cain-David rushed to cast the stone, to create the theme “My sister’s a witch!” His to steal, Zero Sum: one winner, Fortune to be taken, initiation to the brotherfold Price: Sell the Sister into servitude Niccolo Macchiavelli glimpsed a bitter reality Fortunes gained from duplicity I Glimpsed the furtive face of betrayal Brother branded me with insanity Spurned female outkast golden handcuffs of “femininity” Conspiracy of fraternal silence a necessity Game theory fitted to half the species John Forbes Nash, jr : McLean calamity 5 millenniums of Kali Yuga: Age of Quarrel & Hypocrisy, Wall Street pretentious Temple of Piety His/tory impugned by mendicants draped in poverty Warning humanity: cold cash blinds “spirituality” Pico della Mirandola rebuked deMedici Leonardo da Vinci: outkast for his sexuality Zora Neale Hurston simple dirt grave: her credibility Louis Henri Sullivan: homeless architectural visionary Game theory discards divinity: Krsna’s a mere probability Theoretical casualty, not ontological causality Driven to reduce Infinity, maddened by impossibility 5 milleniums erecting idolatry Blessed to lose, born to see The way “poets are to be treated” * Said Machiavelli OM *Fortune is a River by Roger H. Masters
*Fortune is a River by Roger H. Masters