From the Sex Lives of Philosophers 

The Big Bang

and subsequent

smaller bangs

are expressed

in a flood

of zeros

and ones.

This makes

Leibniz hard.

 

maidman

waylaid

  gainsaid 

TUMBLEBEE

STUMBLEBEE 

RUMBLEBEE 

MUMBLEBEE

FUMBLEBEE

DUMBBELLBEE

CRUMBLEBEE

 

Number*

 

Paint-by-

numbers (number

 

than one

should be)

 

and out-

of-order. 

 

A sleeping bee

dreams of France.

 

*

 

False starts.

 

1, 2, C . . .

A, B, 3 . . .

 

Alphanumeric stainzas

color everything.

 

One is composed

and decomposed

 

in sequences

of wash.

 

*

 

The buzz

is uncertain. 

 

Our body

seems to

be another. 

 

What if

we pretend? 

 

Don’t call

it anything –

nada, rien.

 

*

 

*Hard and soft bees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Enthusiasm Couplet

My enthusiasm for orgasms continues apace.

My enthusiasm for death with a big D remains negligible.