Madness by Sam Sax

Author:Sam Sax [Sax, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

ON HYSTERIA

hippocrates believed the uterus

moved freely around the body

little hitchhiker with her thumb out

on the highway of the small intestine

she visits the various organs

she brings her whiskey

::

the cure for a woman suffering

hysteria was once to be masturbated

by a professional

the doctor’s dumb gloved hand

the metal table

stirrups

::

hippocrates was a mthfkr

::

my grandfather the psychotherapist

was alive & working during this time

i asked him about the practice

he smiled

said everyone left feeling better

::

the first time a doctor entered me

had nothing to do with madness

or pleasure

his camera the size of a thumb

was a steam engine

piercing the desert

he was searching my ass

for polyps

for signs of signs of infection

sweat on his forehead

lip turned up at the edge

::

what does it mean to be descendant

of something monstrous?

to still love the monster?

::

the vibrator was invented

to serve doctors

who serviced hysterical women

their poor corpsed hands

clenched & extinguished

with each orgasm

their sad dour countenance

poor poor doctors

in over their heads

::

across the house

i can still hear

my mother gasp

against the sound

of shaking metal

::

it’s beautiful

how technology can move

from its corrupt origins

into pleasure

i have to remember the internet

began inside the murder

corridors of a war machine

each time i link to a poem

or watch two queers kiss

::

there’s a photograph

of my grandfather holding me

after an asthma attack

until my breathing evened out again

::

i’m sick for this

but need to ask if surgery

isn’t a kind of intercourse

the making of a new orifice

the insertion of instruments

into the body

::

my grandfather’s a good man

my grandfather was accused of [ ]

both these things are true

::

before science

could peer inside

the body nothing

was fixed. all our

organs floated &

changed form.

the heart & brain

two dark forests

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