Has he lost his mind
Can he see or is he blind
–Black Sabbath

 

The wretch the creature the monster
Emblem of modernity
Organism as assemblage

But are these still modern times
Is this world still the world of Petrarch Columbus
Copernicus Luther Watt Wollstonecraft and Washington

Or perhaps assemblage is a defining feature
Neither ethic nor spirit
But only blind impersonal process

No not blind
A person who never lived is not dead
Nor an insensible being necessarily senseless

Never to have seen space nor heard time
And thus to unravel
The various and intoxicating delusion