The Proof of the Axiom                    

 

1.

She circles inside

the proof of the axiom

 

The axiom is self-evident

Is it true

 

2.

Is a wavelength blue

Is a wave a wave

 

She performs a gesture

with her hand

 

3.

If she hit rock

she could build a house

 

If she built a house

she could look out of the window

 

4.

O, no! There’s an axiom

inside the proof of the axiom

 

and another

and another

 

5.

She cannot tell

the net from the knot

 

fact from effect

All, as Parmenides says, is one

 

6.

She walks in woe

from lodgment to lodgment

 

trying to make

an analytic judgment


 

La Fille des Sourds

 

 

The hearing

daughter of the deaf

 

dreams aloud

in Sign

 

 

In French

she is la fille des sourds

 

She has

a Dedekind Cut                                                                       

 

 

She says: /t/ /k/ /p/

mutter babble

 

Her first words

are not in her Muttersprache

 

 

She walks

cries mutter

 

mutter mutter

Die Mutter kann nicht hören

 

 

The mother is crushed

by the sides of her bed

 

Why

It is because they are so many

 

 

the dead

 

 poems from  DJ Spinoza Poems

                                                           by Eugene Ostashevsky

 

 

 

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