Neurasthenia with photojournalist
It is not the eye
As much as the pressing,
The graphic over-writing
Of light, that sickens you.
His secretary-hand that presses
The button to send
The electric-elevator body:
Your ride of shame.
Horse-electrons pull it up
With their power and
Transport you to the bottom level
Id-garage of insecurity.
Man’s elevator has no
Down button.
It has trundle-bed speakers!
Costco condoms that
Heatforherpleasure!
Modern automata
For modern sexology.
He overlooks.
It is the centrality of Feeling
To the Production,
And yet. He overlooks.
He knows.
Over-wrought bed-work
Is done by women
Who want to lie like
Reanimated cow tongues.
American hospitals had a physician
Named the Electrician
Who attended more than
Matters of the heart.
The West cure and
The Rest cure ran
Through the Electrical Department
And its many shunted-bodies
In need of galvanizing.
The soft pressing suggestion of
Abuse in influence.
The ungloved hands
That magnetize women
To have somewhere to flood.
The skin is a poor
Conductor. Call attraction
“Animal magnetism.”
As if All of Communication
Is a Horse in Need of
A Man with Horse Sense
To Throw a Harness Over it.
Poets sought magnetic treatment
To become more sensitive
To the mesmeric trance.
Some called it “interpenetration”
To be overpowered
By a flower’s emanations.
Some still seek
After interpenetration.
A kind of perfection.
Celerity coupled with
Word economy.
Every photojournalist
Tells you the afterimage
Is made in motion.
The afterimage of
The photojournalist
Is light sick-printing
In the stomach. It scatters
And regroups and scatters.
It is the loop that rides
Bed to Bed
Bus to Bus to Bus
In reverse. The transit that
Abstracts electricity.
It is the medium.
What for you extends
Rationally:
For you: nothing.
For you: nothing.
But for a medium-big dick.