Travels On An Ox-Chart Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Scientists, bless their souls - were it not for
them, we would still have been illiterate and
at the mercy of the Church with 10 babies to
feed, struggling to survive every drought and
potato famine - some scientists believe

They found evidence that many universes do
exist, as usual too scared to say anything, they
nevertheless point to 4 circular patterns in the
cosmic microwave background of our universe,
their thinking enlightened to hypothesise

There are many Big Bangs continuing infinitely,
parallel universes bump and crash and new ones
form all the time, as has been taught by Eastern
spiritualists, but Western science travels on an
ox-chart chained to 5-sense observation

It's fine - better than being forced to accept other
people's visions when verification is impossible and
the many visions contradict each other all the time -
for me, confirmation of the proliferation of Big Bang
Theories is just wonderful and good enough

To keep me going for a month at least…

[27 January 2015]