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Der Aufklärer

By Richard Mather



Be natural! But how if one happens to be "unnatural"? – Nietzsche, Will to Power #66


...for how should man force nature to yield up her secrets but by successfully resisting her, that is to say, by unnatural acts? – Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy Chapter 9


He watched her take a piss, using the online camera

secreted in the pan of the toilet.

She wiped herself from back to front,

the ‘wrong way round,’ he thought.

She did this twice.

He masturbated hundreds of miles away

and came in less than a minute.

Dark thoughts gathered

round him like crows, which he batted away.


Now he had complete possession of the truth,

obscene and pornographic.

The motto all truth must be seen

means the demystification of the body

– even in its most private places.


She pulled up her knickers, straightened her skirt

and left the bathroom, concealing herself

from the hard militant gaze of his masculine eye.

Der Aufklärer wiped himself clean

and looked around,

to make sure he hadn’t been seen.

The scrutiny of the eye is the voyeur’s alone.


All truth must be seen has its limit.

Everything must be seen, except himself.

Everything transparent except his own activity,

Everything revealed but his own transgression –

compensation for the death of God,

which is the true universality.


In the guise of the pornographer, he goes to the limit.



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