A Lenticular Perspective Poem by Alexandre Nodopaka

It's not that I am getting older that I need different
spectacles for reading and for nightfall viewing.
It's a problem with my separate irises that no longer
work like diaphragm shutters in a stereo camera.

The perfection in the formula F1 over F2 no longer
applies to me without corrective actions. I need to
artificially compensate for the deteriorating organic
data. It's something that hardly entered my mind

when everything was working without any demands
on my part. The photons would simply come
parallel to the principal axis and pass from the focal
point or travel from the focal point parallel

to the principal axis or they'd come from the center
of curvature and turn back on themselves hitting
the mirror at the vertex then reflect from the center
of the curvature and turn back on themselves again.

And if my problem were convex, then the light rays
would follow the same path given above as if my
eyeballs were concave mirrors as long as the image
of the object was located between the focal point

and the vertex. Look, I didn't want to bother you
with the laws of optics but it was necessary to focus
on them here. Plato helped me from his grave in spite
of Parmenides' criticism of the noematic thesis.