Guest Contributor—Raymond Federman

Just came across this poem again, sent me in the first ever email I received from Raymond on 31 October 2002 at 22.27. The last email was dated 13 Sept 2009 at 16:37, shortly before Raymond sadly changed tense on Oct 6 2009. Hope you are still enjoying the philosopher's art wherever you may be.

CULTIVATION

He who practices ononism

is master of all:

Diogenes without any doubt

is the ancestor of the pornosopher--

the pornocrate philosopher

who masturbated on the public square

and who enjoyed whoever

was tortured by sexual desire

to satisfy it immediately in this manner.

The widowed-wrist to the antique sage

begot cynical shoots and for 25 centuries

pornosophic sensitivity (or pornographico-

philonanistic ideology) flourished.