Equidistance
by NG Yi-Sheng
by NG Yi-Sheng
Socrates taught us to love boys and the mathematics. We assume the spherical boy,
equilateral boy, his proof necessarily elegant. Common nights we wake to find
ourselves missing his surface area, warm to the touch; a scalene child
beside us, all knobbled wrists and truncations. I turn and dream
of the heave of his volume, the breadth and square of his utter radius, but
men on camels stalk my sleep who would solve this desert with variables unknown:
let x be the value of he who lies before me, breathing at my feet like a somnolent eleven,
yet I fear to wake, for they have taught me also the use of the zero.
from last boy (2006)
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i learnt from this post one thing. socrates is gay.
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