Take the atomic scale for instance
this isn’t coming from me
where things
behave like nothing
you have any direct
experience about
not like waves, particles, clouds
billiard balls
or weights on springs
can we pause for a moment at
weights on springs
to explore the behaviour
not of matter and light
but of a scientist
playing at the quantum scale
the way a child might play with sand
a pail, shovel
building castles and forts
laughing uproariously
as if the universe were the
funniest comedian
a conundrum
the best of jokes
can we find, not only solace
that our stupid rhetoric
and shallow jockeying for power
is not the only language on offer
but also in how much there is to know
and how little of it is mapped
steeped in my own
particular ignorance
I find hope
probabilities
just add together
this is the only mystery
we cannot solve can use
in this perilous
but still correct
existence.
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