RUNDELANIA

from, Amongst the Trembling Apes

by Jarrad Ackert

 

 

Imprisoned by chemical-release and blind procreation, sex appears as the natural, desirable thing to do.  To a mind, aware of its own fiction and enslavement, however, sex is transfigured into a disaster, an abomination.  Paralyzed and consequentially celibate is the one who sees the act as a revolting trembling of bodies, sharing in the wealth of a myth – the myth of being someone, something outside of the meaningless mechanics of biological function.  Even more disastrous are the horrors of reproduction – propagation of the void’s bastards; additional scar tissue of the Absolute (suffering).

 

I will remain paralyzed, a failure of flesh.

 

 

 

Amongst the Trembling Apes  is Jarrad Ackert’s most recent book.