Short Discontinuity Poems

They are bilingual,
fluent in a paradoxical
intersection of a line and a cloud.
Each language has a distinct cadence,
a unique inflection.
They can jump over the discontinuity,
the differential between
derivative and derivative,
integral and integral.
They put the rhythm in "logarithm"
and could remove the "can't" from "secant"
if words were defined
at the point of intersection....

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Weaving, stumbling from one job to another
  His roadmap reeks of discontinuity
And that is why his home's a cardboard box
  He's squandered each and every opportunity

A fancy lady passerby, mercy in her eyes
  Once offered him her hand, if he could just stay sober
But that very winter's night he'd gotten drunk
  Next morn the gig was over...

Now's he's living on the street again
   Hoping to survive
Another round of ice and snow ~
  Odds so long: He's all of twenty-five...

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Arthur, last name withheld, was a Camusian soul and in his will
he asks to laugh at his death, and laugh
with no irony or remorse.
Ever wonder who created the plague and why?
A moment of discontinuity binding us to
our inner essence, the black hole sucking up all
meaning and loyalty, a
laughing stock of the world.
Happy to say happiness is an abstraction and
life is execution postponed. A writer searching for 
shipwreck of meaning is lost in his searchlight
bound for disappointment....

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