01-20-2015, 04:17 AM
The perfect body
was a marble paradigm.
To some this image of perfection
was a woman that they’d call an odalisque.
To deduce the accurate proportions of their courtesan,
they collected skulls
that would not lie
in mountains on a battlefield.
Instead of practicing barbarity, they treated them with antiseptic,
held them in a vaulted palm to dappled light,
proposed some theories on phrenology,
And tested them empirically with a bit of trepanning.
Searching for the Elan Vital that would correlate to preternatural beauty
and platonic forms,
they would drill and measure skulls
just to separate the psychoanalyst from the raving madmen
who, at the bus stop, said you slighted him because your
brow was wrinkled in a perturbed glance.
All of these tools worked to separate
the psychoanalyst from a raving madmen.
was a marble paradigm.
To some this image of perfection
was a woman that they’d call an odalisque.
To deduce the accurate proportions of their courtesan,
they collected skulls
that would not lie
in mountains on a battlefield.
Instead of practicing barbarity, they treated them with antiseptic,
held them in a vaulted palm to dappled light,
proposed some theories on phrenology,
And tested them empirically with a bit of trepanning.
Searching for the Elan Vital that would correlate to preternatural beauty
and platonic forms,
they would drill and measure skulls
just to separate the psychoanalyst from the raving madmen
who, at the bus stop, said you slighted him because your
brow was wrinkled in a perturbed glance.
All of these tools worked to separate
the psychoanalyst from a raving madmen.