Electra's Congratulations

" I am accustoming myself to the idea of regarding every sexual act as a process in which four people are involved. We shall have a lot to discuss about that."

S.FREUD: Letters

"There are two positions available to us--either crime which renders us happy, or the noose, which prevents us from being unhappy. I ask whether there can be any hesitation, lovely Thérèse, and where will your little mind find an argument able to combat that one?"

D.A.F DE SADE: Les Malheurs de la vertu.

 

I watched it, opalescent dark image inkily

layered out, glistening on the bus window

And though I knew I was there, crisscrossed

by rails, seats and stop buttons

polished mussel shells,

no recognition came

And just above the plastic arm rest read

Christ, as just another dent stretching

seen on the line encrusted ruler of lead

Not so far from the 22^nd mark

I seemed and seamed

myself, allocated to.

I heard then the devilish laughter

Freud at the front row raising his

wine glass in mocking red salute

Electra's' eyes brimmed full

of satisfied ruby contempt

she may be cursed but

in this, dammit,

she is not

alone.

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