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The History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell had just about convinced me
there’s more to life than sex
I’d like to go to bed
with him but he’s dead even windowless
monads are sexy they remind me of gonads
careening around & bumping
each other hitting on each other
I know more philosophy than that
you’re not supposed to mix
your muse with your mistress or they’ll both
fuck you over the real question
is
is there anything we can think of
which
by the mere fact that we can think of it
is shown to exist outside
our thought
the answer is sex
therefore god exists
sex is a revelation
a reason
empirical
possible credible self-consistent
the best of all possible worlds
sex precedes existence
precedes essence
I fuck therefore
I attract every body with a force
directly proportional to the product
of their masses
Buridan’s ass
unable to choose between 2 equidistant bundles of hay
died of hunger
call me up sometime I’ll make you lunch
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Elinor Nauen is a poet and prose writer who writes frequently about baseball, cars and driving, and place, and maintains a six-day-a-week blog (at ElinorNauen.com). Her books include Now That I Know Where I’m Going, American Guys, So Late into the Night (a book-length poem in ottava rima), My Marriage A to Z: A big- city romance, Cars and Other Poems, and, as editor, Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women writers on Cars & the Road and Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. She hails from South Dakota, lives in Manhattan’s East Village with her husband (Johnny Stanton) and a cat (Lefty), and studies Norwegian and strict traditional Japanese karate. She hosted (with Martha King) the Prose Pros series from 2007-2019.
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