The Geometry of Need (or, How’s
this
for First Thought / Best Thought,
Pt. 2?)
Sometimes it seems that some folks absolutely need
some sort of Ptolemaically
structured pantheon of
varying shades and degrees,
pie-graphs and Venn-
diagrams of Xs, Ys and Zs
symbolizing, charting and
compartmentalizing all the various
diametrically
opposing dichotomies of devils and
gods, demons
and angels, aristocrats and
street-sweepers, embrace-
ables and untouchables, lowly
princes and lordly
paupers. Yes, indeed, sometimes it
seems that some
folk’s days (hell, their very
lives, I tell you!) would
not be complete without something
to sneer at juxt-
opposed against something to
lustfully leer at,
something to loathe and something
to fetishize,
something to suckle up to and something to demonize
from on-high, and seriously ...
what the hell is wrong
with you people!?
Jason
Ryberg
Jason
Ryberg is the author of twelve books of poetry,
six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders,
notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be
(loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry
letters to various magazine and newspaper editors.
He
is currently an artist-in-residence at both
The
Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s
and
the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor
and
designer at Spartan Books. His latest collections of poems
are
Zeus-X-Mechanica (Spartan Press, 2017)
and
A Secret History of the Nighttime World (39 West Press, 2017).
He
lives part-time in Kansas City with a rooster named Little Red
and
a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere
in
the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also
many
strange and wonderful woodland critters.
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