In 1937, Simone Weil experienced
ecstasy in an ugly church.
At 34, she was weak,
hungry, impossibly
bold, dead by 1943.
Weil was really into the word
supernatural. She circles around it.
The ideas she is building
come back to it.
It ends many sentences
containing her
so she gives it a life.
Man’s great affliction
which begins with infancy
and accompanies him
till death, is that looking
and eating are two different
operations. Eternal
beatitude is a state
where to look is to eat.
My chip was invented
after her time.
Man only escapes
from the laws of the world
in lightning flashes.
It is through such instants
that he is capable
of the supernatural.
I’ve watched a cat
eat a Dorito in grass,
have eaten whole bags
by the black sea.
They are plain, thin,
fried, dry
corn until they’re covered
in bright powder.
Salt, cheddar cheese,
maltrodextrin, whey,
monosodium glutamate,
buttermilk solids, romano,
whey protein concentrate,
onion powder, partially
hydrogenated soybean
and cottonseed oil,
corn flour, disodium
phosphate, lactose, natural
and artificial flavor, dextrose,
tomato powder, spices, lactic
acid, Yellow 6, Yellow 5,
Red 40, citric acid, sugar,
garlic powder, sodium,
caseinate, disodium inosinate,
disodium guanylate, nonfat
milk solids, whey protein,
isolate, corn syrup,
but I want more of them.
Contradiction is the point of the pyramid.
Doradito means “little golden thing.”