WANTING
by Ruth Stone
Wanting and dissatisfaction
are the main ingredients
of happiness.
To want is to believe
there is something worth getting.
Whereas getting only shows
how worthless the thing is.
And this is why destruction
is so useful.
It gets rid of what was wanted
and so makes room
for more to be wanted.
How valueless is the orderly.
It cries out for disorder.
And life that thinks it fears death,
spends all of its time
courting death.
To violate beauty
is the essence of sexual desire.
To procreate is the essence of decay.
Arthur Magazine 
One hell of a poem. Shades of Nietzsche, Bataille, and Norman O. Brown. Even Heraclitus. Simply wonderful.
I’ve been musing over this poem for the past day and the more I look at it the more amazing it becomes. In addition of the above mentioned names it recapitulates Herbert Marcuse too, particularly in his concept of “The Great Refusal” in his landmark *Eros and Civilazation*.
Also Alain Danielou, to wit:
“In order to be genuine, love and the rapture of pleasure must be absolutely irrational. They must not be ‘useful,’ ‘normal,’ or ‘according to law.’ They must not be a mere procreative act used to beget children for the continuance of our house, to look after us and defend our property. They must not be the outcome of marriage, which stabilizes our social position and represents a communion of interests. True love must be wholly useless and disinterested, far from any idea of family, progeny, or social order. Only then is it pure, true love. This is why the mystical poets sing of illicit love, the love of what does not belong to you (parakiya) and not of what you already possess (svakiya). Loving a wife, or someone who belongs to us, is part of what binds us to the world of forms and not of what can free us from it. Only adulterous, abnormal, or incestuous love can be considered pure and truly free from all ties, and only it can give us some idea of what the mystics experience—it is absurd, disinterested, and destructive of all that is human.”
-Alain Danielou, The Hindu Temple, p. 105-106