in the mathematics of engineering
we call a problem overconstrained
when its parameters and boundaries
lead to no valid solutions
ex 1.
i am overconstrained
as a lesbian
the youngest son of
two chinese HK diaspora
with petit bourgeois aspirations
the last in line to “queer” expectations
of being productive and having a happy life
a failure of a trans woman
too amab to be taken seriously
with a penchant for drinking and cussing
and going 160 km/h
on the don valley parkway
“gender is fake” is a platitude
afforded by those who can
ignore the pre-existing conditions
of being a faggot
ex 2.
the distance between chicago and toronto
is 826.2 km
it takes 5.512 ms for a speck of light
to make a round trip
or in our case
udp packets encoded
with my words, sent with
all the love i could bear
to give to a single person
sent through fibre optic cable
was not enough to keep us tethered together
(a three-body problem is analytically unsolvable
—a two-body problem with divergent solutions
has other constraints on the matter)
ex 3.
serotonin reuptake
and the modelling of neurotransmitters
in rat brains is computationally expensive
but theory and praxis
are a powerful dialectic
i have [hereto] only interpreted my mind in various ways;
the point is to change it