Capricious Humor of the Immortal Ones

Once more, there, blood-reflecting irregular tears
A compelling itch our wounds offer
Flow now sustained, essencing, escaping – such violence
Finally, peaceful repose
Or, perhaps not, existence recurring,
Infinitely, as in a mirrored room
Ultimate cruelty of the Gods
The circular motion, which was Plato’s ideal for perfection in motion
Malignity of your reading this goddamn poem, just where you are, eternally
Hear the Gods howl, safely tucked away from the wretched expectoration
Of our perdurable, malodorous subjugation
Gifts of ever imaginative Moira


Rusty Gentry

Capricious Humor of the Immortal Ones by

This is a repost of one of my earliest postings on RB.

The first of what will be a pair of reactions to Book IV: #341 of Nietzsche’s The Gay Science

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About Rusty Gentry

I came rather late to poetry and even later to photography. I have graduate degrees in philosophy. I realized sometime ago that nearly all of my work makes some sort of implicit argument, and it often makes rather esoteric references to philosophy. Sorry: not trying to be turgid. It’s what I know, and it what Pan whispers into my ear.

You may find my newer, more formal photography at: http://rbgphoto-rusty.blogspot.com/
Thanks, Rusty

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perversion, gods, eternal, cruelty, recurrence, platonic

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  • jeanni2010
    jeanni2010over 1 year ago

    great piece Rusty
    Jane xo

  • Thank ya, dahrling. I guess people don’t like this one so much. I always kind of liked it. Thanks dear/. Love, Rusty

    – Rusty Gentry

  • Zolton
    Zoltonover 1 year ago

    It perhaps may be too deep in the authors mind to be understood. I think I get some and then I wonder. I do like it though. It is, I suspect, wickedly humorous.

  • lisameryl
    lisamerylover 1 year ago

    Rusty, stop already…you keep blowing my mind! FANTASTIC write!
    Peace be with you always…Lisa XO