Cartesian Dreaming

Cartesian Dreaming
by Peter Fruchter

i think therefore i am
-- uncertain thinking originates with me

but take no issue,
only let 'me' be

-- by thoughtful definition --
that thought originating source,
which source i'll name and say is 'me'.

then, if thought originates with(in) 'me'
it follows close i must so be
to necessarily exist in being
so as to originate the thinking.

so i think,
and so i seem,
the very origin of my own dream.
but what if not?
what if anything appear unthought?

thinking thus of things unthought,
conceiving possibilings unconceived,
i must haste again to thinking,
to conceiving, to defining
what might appear wholly unthought,
what not with(in) 'me' originating
as 'experience' -- meaning, beyond doubt,
any and all that originates without.

might all be 'me'?
might all be thought?
might i be all and
might 'experience' all be naught?

is all with-in --
and naught without?

alas, too late
to think like that.
having thought what is
yet is unthought,
i must now think how may-be not --
i must think beyond my thought.

'experience', then,
it may-be naught --
yet even so,
if just in thought,
makes me wonder what might there be
that be entirely unthought by 'me'.

so must i wonder
so must wander i
for all there is or yet may-be
that is yet unthought by 'me' --
for all i must get up, set out and see.