absurd

it took my breath away,
there are several torsos together,
rolling them through her fingers, twisting
her wrist as she moved across the torsos,
that became the template for the seduction

the energy, the movement of the possessed,
derives from the way he negotiates the crazy,
playfully explicit, expressive twists and turns
with the strict irrationality of the setting

he uses instinct, skill, elegant expression,
without forfeiting popular appeal,
this acrobat, this dancer, this poet, even dared
to take up one of the 20th century's most pernicious ideas,
echoing the thinking of many a crazed dictator,
"irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically"

she manages her feats by any means necessary, most attempts
at describing her work make it sound lunatic, so let me start by stating simply it is as wonderful as anything i've seen in years,
it is sure to become a site of pilgrimage for all those susceptible
to the proposition that life can be beautiful as well as absurd