Backward reasoning

[Doreen Peri]

This is an exercise in backward reasoning.
My hypothesis began at the end of the axon
where neurons fire. I am wired for plasticity,
despite and because of trauma.
Stay with me now.
This is a simple exercise.
Let's start at the end.

At all costs,
no matter the losses,
I refuse to participate
in the drama of confusing thought.
Battles have been fought in
synaptic connections, at
sensory cortex intersections.
Some were won. Many more
were ignored. In quite a few,
I was defeated.
But adaptation has
not been depleted.

I am studying the brain map.
This is a determined
resurrection following the
inspection of an
under-active word circuit.

I will use my wits,
both dim and nit,
integrate electronic misfiring.
Rewiring can be inspiring.

....(I said I'd stop using words
....ending with i-n-g because
....they *shouldn't* be used
....in poetry.
....But now, look at me!
....Next, I might rewrite the
....dictionary, eliminate the
....words "should" and "shouldn't."
....I didn't say I would so
....please don't say I couldn't.)

Back to the brain.
Some are named insane,
some inept.
I circumspect all possibilities.
When figuring out
where it all begins,
it isn't a sin to
try going backwards.

Start at the grave
with complete deterioration.
After the annihilation
comes a new creation...
which reminds me to address
the problem of population explosion.
There are way too many cars on the road.
We could remedy this
if people would simply decide
to stop coming back for another ride.
I don't understand what type of elation
they all get from reincarnation.

And that brings us back to the head.
Some of us may be better off dead.

But this is an exercise in
backward reasoning, remember?
What would seasons be like
if we started with December
and backed up into fall then
summer. then spring?

I am studying the brain map.
This is a determined word resurrection.
It is an utterly simple thing.

Here's the spin.
It is over.
Let us begin.

[Lightning Rod]

this is you at your finest, doreen
(Chapeau off)

[westcoast]

*claps*

from one who likes to read a book from back to cover - much enjoyed

~westcoast

[hester_prynne]

Man! I love this!!!!
Bravos galore!
H

[stilltrucking]

thank you very much for the poem
It
Sounded like a GO on steriods.

[Arcadia]

I´m staying with you now, doreen!!!!!!!
(in fact more than twice! -my computer is interruptus-loopy today)

great writing!!!!!!! (backward!!)

[Terri]

This is great; my mind's humming along, "insane in the membrane--insane-in-the-brain!". This

Stay with me now.
This is a simple exercise.
Let's start at the end.

--there was no way I was NOT going to follow you after that, and then
loved "wits--both dim and nit". Good, good stuff. Maybe read at the party?