DETERMINING DEMENTIA
Alexander Martin Remollino

For Federico Licsi Espino

You insist,
complete with the needed mathematical logic,
that 1 + 1 = 0.

At this point it is found easy to brush you aside
as a head with loose screws.
It has long been proven and held as absolute
that 1 + 1 = 2.
There's solid proof behind that,
unearthed by the most scientific of methods.

But in a world where it's fashionable
to describe the night sky as brilliant blue,
in a world where fools are applauded
for making fools out of everyone --
who has the competence
to determine the state of your mind?