LIST OF MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS THAT CYBORGS, HYBRIDS, AND
MERMAIDS THINK ABOUT WHEN THEY FALL IN LOVE WITH A MORTAL
by Estíbaliz Espinosa (my translation)
The behavior of
migratory birds
there are some that do not return
The growth of a dune on
a beach
growth and its impertinent challenge to the law of gravity
The expansion of a virus
may we be protected from purity!
The time it takes wounds
to heal
once their succulence is revealed
Our bodily movements
during a night that lasts several hours.
The obscenity that
allows us to think about the cosmos and not about hunger
The coordinate relationship
between one’s self and a copy of one’s self.
Who’s to say: which is genuine and which is the fake?
The golden ratio that
governs your body, thus preventing us from being in charge
The exact dose of a
given drug necessary to provoke certain failures of memory
The thickness of the
sword edge hanging over our delicate little heads
The diameter of our pupils as you enter them
The time it will take
until someone’s eyes once again fall on this line
The velocity and hunger
of your eyes as you read this line
The tilt of our spinal column during a kiss
Our position with
respect to our twin galaxy, Andromeda
The curvature of an egg
The curvature of an egg
when crushed in our android hands
The magnitude and composition
of the epic throughout our history
The curvature of the egg
that cracks in our android hands when your name is coming up on a list, when
your name arrives scrambled, mutated by the formulas we repeat as we scratch
out this text, because it is epic to make our way towards that which has
already conquered us, against that which kills and burns and drags and
illuminates
the formula for the time
it takes to heal the wounds on each of the fingers that will never touch you
again.
never
ever
[from zoommm textos biónicos]
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