quantum poetry paradoxes
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forArianna who sometimes hears opera by night,
but always sees poetry
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what we are is unique, at the molecular level,
our DNA is microscopic visible,
in every letter, comma and
even the false white spaces of
universes expanding,
black holes ******* in fooled passerby’s,
burning out and disappearing
as invisible forces create and dilapidate -
simultaneously
this our poems are finite but never complete,
explorers sent knowing they will never return,
and if they do, though their poems unchanged,
but all the readers older, deformed and/or dead
think on it!
the world of you has revolutionized many times
since you started reading this prose, you have birthed
and seen cells die by the millions by the time you’ve
read this sad stanza twice and glory hallelujah uttered!
so go ahead, create and die
simultaneously
I give you answers,
though you ask for none,
you keep on breathing beating,
beating pumping apparatus paradoxically
insists you live even as it wears out with each
stroking, explain these minute contradictories
as your consciousness refracts and absorbs
these many mighty infinite finalities of
the
quantum poetry paradoxes
12:34pm EST
Aug 25, 2019
Aug 25, 2019 at 12:41 PM UTC
quantum poetry paradoxes
<>
forArianna who sometimes hears opera by night,
but always sees poetry
<>
what we are is unique, at the molecular level,
our DNA is microscopic visible,
in every letter, comma and
even the false white spaces of
universes expanding,
black holes ******* in fooled passerby’s,
burning out and disappearing
as invisible forces create and dilapidate -
simultaneously
this our poems are finite but never complete,
explorers sent knowing they will never return,
and if they do, though their poems unchanged,
but all the readers older, deformed and/or dead
think on it!
the world of you has revolutionized many times
since you started reading this prose, you have birthed
and seen cells die by the millions by the time you’ve
read this sad stanza twice and glory hallelujah uttered!
so go ahead, create and die
simultaneously
I give you answers,
though you ask for none,
you keep on breathing beating,
beating pumping apparatus paradoxically
insists you live even as it wears out with each
stroking, explain these minute contradictories
as your consciousness refracts and absorbs
these many mighty infinite finalities of
the
quantum poetry paradoxes
12:34pm EST
http://poetry.nautil.us/article/372/meet-harvards-own-poet-physician?mc_cid=5b79fbdab2&mc_eid=b10b796328
