To Stephen Simski – Daedalus
(a dramatis persona non grata)
I am I
a cultivated barbarian
a civilised decadent
an un-exiled dissident
a socialist-conformist by force
not by vocation
good for nothing
This I am by recollection
not by fact
by touch
act (ouch!)
No
By recollection
from recollection
(not by fact)
I set out through the labyrinth
the decimated anthill
the eroded bed
blinded
forever I loiter
through white corridors
neon-radiated…
… a draught blows
from these empty scrolls
molehills of the past
from the blank gaze
of the Grand Factographer—
a well-known structuralist
puzzled by the possibility
of combinations
aporia
Not by fact!
No
I am I
entellechy
a form of forms
engendered by recollection
of Adam and Eve
according to a fragmentary code
a genetic amalgam
a heap of cells
that excavate
their own blood stream