La Musique de Sade
The mathematics of your music were combined
With jouissance, jolts of physics known as sound.
Your love and compositions were aligned
With calculations and the most profound
Depressions, melancholia and drink—
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And passion played on instruments of pain.
Philosopher and pangs with bedroom stink
Performed their measured parts and left their stain
On sheets and bars. Genet and Broch and death
And Nietzsche each disrupts equations, though
Not like devotion surrenders your breath
Against the lips and tongue of strapped Foucault.
This is music writing stripped and spare.
This is adoration’s crippling laid bare.