In Concordance With St. Irenaeus / AKA: Lines Composed Sunday Evening

Location

Wilhelm Wundt would rather me be

anywhere between 20 and 50 people dependent upon

the complexity of my harrowed mass or the strength of

caprice

 

(and the inexorable truth of mass is that it’s yet

to account for gravity’s constant)

 

I’m something of a Euler’s Number: to cram

this coterie in a box only large enough for a domesticated

something-or-other and induce--deduce?--with reasonable cert

ainty that anywhere between 7 and 44 of me can be expected to emerge

alive

 

(to account for statistical error, offer a buffer of something like

3% to 10% relative to how confident your estimate is; I’m not prepared

to join the leagues of Thomas Andrews Jr., so these numbers represent

a resolute and categorical nothing)

 

Machiavelli did not--could not--explicate my means of success, for

it’s not in the name of the courtship, monarchy, or masculinity--

Christ, I can’t give it a name--it’s something of a lacuna, a permutation of modus; not

even--an implausibility of evolution: I’ve manufactured a functional but insular Marxist

paradise

 

(I’ve always firmly believed that 95 Theses could not truly substantiate

one’s righteous fury--I choose, moreover, to believe that x = 95 provides the

vertical asymptote of denunciations, so, therefore, the number could, at any point,

find it’s true value between 95--as minimum--and positive infinity--as maximum--being

more appropriately ≥95 Theses)

 

If Narcissus was right about anything, it’s that one’s mind can will itself into

geocentricism--I’ve achieved some balance--Galileo’s opus magnus between his

fingers

 

(Gladwell theorizes that 10,000 hours are requisite in mastering      365.25

anything, and last time I checked                                                        x 18

157,788 hours of voice and conviction would be something             ---------

of overkill, like a fistula from one’s Broca’s Area to their                   6574.5

absolute essence--life in Ekphrasticisms                                          x 24

as if savant toward mutability, immutability, and the                          ---------

rationalisms--empiricisms?--between)                                             157788

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