Champagne Party In The Galaxy Poem by kp. shashidharan

1
‘Dear Marilyn Monroe, you're invited to my champagne party
You may ride a time machine, zooming through the time tunnel
Into time, into space, in the fourth dimension
Please, do note my address - the time space coordinates -; '
Beguiled Mr. Stephen Hawking!

'Oh, Steve, I love to be in the party
I'll take though, a little time out
As I crave visiting, my grandma, after your party.
Would you mind, taking me there? '; implored Marilyn!
2
‘Don't you like rollercoaster ride?
I'll take you in a wormhole
Speeding along the length of time to the other end of the universe?
Only one promise, lose not your temper, shoot not your granny
Trust me; I go for time travel often
Time travel isn't a heresy
I'm a physicist, not an eccentric
You can enjoy time travel with me
To the dark cavern of the cosmic origin into the past
Or into the infinite future; ' reassured Stephen!

'Steve, train me to swim in the river of time
Against the flow, towards its origin
Let us visit our great, great grandma too -
The African black mother of us all
I wish meeting, Adam and Eve, fully naked
I'll forbid them eating that damn forbidden fruit
I should chase Satan out of the Garden of Eve
I won't allow him, manoeuvring Eve by trickery
My soul is hungry for merging in affection to Shri Krishna
Dancing in dissolution, in fusion, in him, in Rasa Leela
Melting me into the celestial sound waves inundating from the flute
Amalgamating me, zeroing me, nullifying my own existence
I desire, attending to Buddha's sermon
I love Jesus not crucified, save him from the cross
I wish watching the abyss of the past out-flowing from its cavern
Had Napoleon not overpowered in the Waterloo
John F Kennedy alive, not assassinated
I desire witnessing history liquefying in the river of time! '

‘Marilyn, I'm afraid
Time travel wouldn't let
Anyone to tinker the course of the history
As our mind would like fantasising
It is like you shooting your grandma
Not allowing you to be born
Some doubts, I do have
Which I would clarify when we meet Einstein
We should chat with Gandhi
Though we would be helpless
To help him from those bullets
When we would meet Leonardo
Let us find out, who was his Mona Lisa! '
3
'Steve, I believe you
But aren't you obsessed with time?
You say, you see, wormholes in nooks and crannies! '

‘True, I believe creating a portal to the past, a portal to the future
Come, Marilyn, climb into the time tunnel with me
Let us fly, fly far, far away - into time, into space
You show me, but, where's the path?
To my left, to my right to the fourth dimension
Once we fly away,
Who knows, when we will emerge, and where? '
4
'Tell me, Steve
How can we fly into time, without a time machine?
How'll you thank Galileo for telescoping to the heavens?
How'll we reach to the end of cosmos?
How'll we find out, the end of our story hiding
In the celestial cavern of time? '

‘Marilyn, see those tiny wrinkles
Crevices and voids in time
Smaller than molecules
Smaller than even atoms
Right now, I see the quantum foam
Let me capture a wormhole for you
But, I've to enlarge it, Marilyn
To make it big enough for us
To fly through the time tunnel
To ride our spaceship
Zooming through the other end! '
5
'You're too intelligent
Show me, only one wormhole for us to tour around
The Milky Way, spiral galaxies, stars, nebulae, big black holes...'

‘Now I can visualise, a giant wormhole
In the outer space in the future
Bridging Earth to the far away planet
I'm seeing the dinosaurs
They're charging at our spaceship
Oh, Marilyn, come close to me
Our time machine is rolling down in the space canyon
Let me enlarge the wormhole to escape the pull of the black hole
Let me make the wormhole faster two thousand times Apollo 10
The fastest manned vehicle, so far! '
6
'I'm with you Steve
You can flirt with me, woo me round
Into the hollow sky of the time tunnel
Take me, Steve, please
To the other end of the cosmic channel, end of the galaxies.'

‘Let me pour you some champagne
Let me open the door, thereafter
Miss Universe of the future is at the door
I'd invited her too for this party
I've to finish, some more experiments though! '
7
'Stephen, are you awake?
I don't understand you
Are you conscious?
Are you dreaming?
I can't believe you any more
Nobody has turned up
For your champagne party
From the heavens above
What a shame on Earth! '

‘Marilyn, but you should know
These wormholes:
They're pretty tricky contrivance
Even to see them in our mind's eye!
We're still possibly in the three dimension world
Probably you're in the fourth dimension
Let us both be in the eleventh dimension of the M-theory! '

'Oops! Steve, I can't understand you
You have too much IQ and EQ
But I have only BQ - the Beauty Quotient! ';
Acknowledged Marilyn Monroe!
8
‘Believe me
It is all because.....
Because.......'

'Steve
What do you mean?
Because of me...? '; cried out Marilyn! '

‘You should know, the grandfather paradox;
The Mad Scientist paradox
They stopped us from time travel
But, if you don't tell anyone
I'll whisper in your ears, the secret key to time travel! '

'That's cool, tell me, Steve
You've a beautiful mind; and you trust me a lot
I'll listen to you, even if I comprehend nothing
You sound starry-eyed; I love you that way - brilliant
I can feel luminous nebulae in the Milky Way! '
Marilyn inspired Steve!

‘You see that guy
He's a mad scientist
He's in a time tunnel
Just stretching one minute into the past
Oops! The mad scientist sees himself
Jesus, he faces himself one minute before
Alas! I can't believe, Marilyn
He shot him, the earlier himself
In the flow of the cosmic river of time
Yes, using that goddamn wormhole
He's dead and gone swallowed by the black hole of time! '
9
'Hey Steve, it is too much for me
Why should he shoot his earlier himself?
You're too crazy
What sort of time tour of the cosmos is this?
Now, you tell me, why did he shoot him and when? '
Inquired, Marilyn!

‘It's the problem - the nightmare of the time traveller
It could be the wormhole
Do you believe me, Merlin?
The story of time travel isn't yet over? '
10
'Oh, yeah, please, pour for me more champagne
Your story is good, only if I'm drunk, fully out of my senses! '

‘You've more champagne, as much as you cherish
I do enjoy champagne, it's delicious
But there's a problem; I can't pour it for you,
Until we're on time travel - aboard in the time machine! '

'Oops! I know you're crazy
But, I thought, not so absolutely cranky! '

‘If you don't understand me
It's the problem of the power of your brain
Do you know GPS - the Global Positioning System?
When satellites orbit Earth
You know, time runs faster in those clocks:
Not that the clock is not accurate;
But because time runs faster
Faster than on Earth, in the space!
So we do correct clocks in the space shuttles
This drags on time was first found by Einstein
You can check with him if you come with me! '
11
'Steve,
I've got a headache, now!
Only if you pour champagne for me
Will I be able to concentrate? '

‘Marilyn, when we fly
Right at the centre of the Milky Way
Just about twenty six thousand light years away
There lies, the heaviest object in the galaxy
A super massive black hole:
Mass of four million suns
Crushed down concentrating into a single point!

So intense is its gravitational pull, dragging even light to its centre
Let me confide in you
You know what
For the crew in that spaceship, orbiting the black hole
Time slows down by half
I want you be with me in that space ship
Orbiting around the black hole!

I'll pour for you champagne, while launching into the galaxies
We'll have a gala trip in the Milky Way
When we return Planet Earth
We'll see our children aged like our fathers
They would age double, when we would only age half
Let me confide in you, a secret, Marilyn
That super massive black hole is a time machine! '
12
'Oh, yeah, Steve, I can understand now, the mad scientist paradox
Because he's a wholesome oddball
Is your story of the time travel not over yet? ';
Queried Marilyn Monroe!

'Listen to me, please, the last part
If you're ready to travel with me
Really, really, very, very fast
Faster than the speed of light
Not being sucked up in a black hole
We'll take only one way ticket in future
We'll board in a superfast train
We'll travel at the speed of light!

Don't you worry, I'm with you
Let the train may encircle Earth
Over and over, seven times a second
Time will slow down for us
You know, Marilyn, believe me
We've built something of that sort of a train
That's the world's largest particle accelerator
Yes, at CERN, in Geneva, in Switzerland
If you don't believe me, come with me to Switzerland
Oh, Marilyn, come with me, hurry up, there is no time
We've to board the time train
We won't ride the wormhole
We won't be sucked in the black hole!