#emotion
I have emotions
that are like newspapers that
read themselves.
I go for days at a time
trapped in the want ads.
I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house:
18 rooms
$37,000
I’m yours
ghosts and all.
There is a Beautiful Creature Living in a hole you have dug. So at night I set fruit and grains And little pots of wine and milk Beside your soft earthen mounds, And I often sing. But still, my dear, You do not come out. I have fallen in love with Someone Who hides inside you. We should talk about this problem--- Otherwise, I will never leave you alone
having a relationship
with you
is like ridng
a 3-speed bicycle
in rush hour traffic
up yonge st.—
too many people
altogether
and besides
it’s dangerous—
i got hit
by a bus 1 day
& didn’t know what hit me
till i struck the pavement
& saw this great big
bus’s body
going past me
2 inches from
my hands on the ground
what happened
a man asked
did your bike
get caught
in the grating?
no i said
grating, my foot!
a bus just hit me
what does it look like?
(realizing that i could’ve been killed
& no one would’ve
even noticed
—not even the bus—
falling in love with you
was like
being hit
by a bus—
i wasn’t killed
but I wouldn’t do it again.
One of my pet peeves is the idea that logic and emotion are opposites.
The are not opposites. They are just two different things that a brain can do.
Logic is a method of reasoning that is a means to an end. Emotions are a side effect of being alive. They are not opposites, any more than oak trees and lavender bushes are opposites.
And while I am on the subject: mathematics and art are not opposites, either, and nor are religion and science. They are just different things; different approaches to understanding. To position them opposite each other is reductive, shallow, and under-informed.