if a woman were to wile and beguile me it would be she-- she is ebola, burning hot and fast replicating majesty without space or energy-- she is spirit in a short circuit voltage and current-- she aptly replaces the schematics copied down in physics. a girl of the Ganges-- distance distracts and remembers little yet often still i pray to insulate her sparks, to absorb each ionic mote of excess she discharges, wrap them in neutrino ribbons and save them under my vest for the birthdays still to come.