Not immoral but immoderate
is the way that I’m designed;
no disproof come with quod erat
demonstrandum, to my mind.
In the proof that has much merit
wordplay changes erat to
eros, love, which when you share it
fuses numbers one and two.

Inspired by a passage from marvelous novel about witchcraft in medieval England and Massachusetts, The Last Witchfinder, by James Morrow, who lives in State College, PA. Jennet Stearne, in her quest for Isaac Newton, pairs up with Benjamin Franklin. On p.262 the nineteen-year old, sexually inexperienced Ben Franklin, concerned about the sexual relationship he is having with the forty-seven year old, sexually versatile, Jennet Stearne, asks her: “Is this immoral? ” “Merely immoderate, ” she replies.” After they make love Ben Franklin says to her: “Quod eros demonstrandum.”


5/1/06

gershon hepner

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/q-e-d/