Jouissance and I!

Apology of the MacGyver of Gaslighting

 

I

I am sorry that I got you . . .

addicted to Heroin ;

But your susceptibility —

is not my responsibility . . .

 

II

I am sorry that I got you . . .

addicted to Xanax ;

But your malleability —

is not my accountability . . .

 

III

I am sorry that I got you . . .

addicted to Adderall ;

But your fragility —

is not my liability . . .

 

IV

I am sorry that I got you . . .

addicted to Crack Cocaine ;

But your deceptability —

is not my inflammability . . .

V

I am sorry that I got you . . .

addicted to Klonopin ; 

But your controllability — 

is not my pleasurability . . .

 

VI

I am sorry that I got you . . .

addicted to Crystal Meth ; 

But your replaceability —

is not my imponderability . . .

 

G.R. Tomaini is a First-Generation LGBTQ Federal McNair Scholar and author of ten books who recently graduated from Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan; thus far, seven works of his have been published across six volumes. He has written seven books of Poetry and one Philosophical Encyclopedia that functions as a Critique of the Western Philosophical Canon. His Encyclopedia of American Idealism: Toward a Novel Method and System of Philosophy arguably contains within its pages the United States's first Philosophical System ever written on the continent, in the style of the Western Tradition. Additionally, his Master's Thesis, the Tractatus Perfectio-Philosophicus: Or, Discourses On The Dharma of Civilization And Its Odyssey Toward International Harmony is forthcoming from Manticore Press in Australia; his fifth book of poetry, The Psalms of Babylon: Or, 112 Flowers Of Malaise was published by Indigo Dragon Press in Australia.