There's This Thing About Black Holes Poem by Alexandre Nodopaka

There's This Thing About Black Holes



Of which nature nobody speaks.
We know some behave in strange ways.
We don't know exactly why or how

Since they are invisible.
Well, that's what the astrophysicists claim.
As for me since I can't see them

With my naked eye, no pun intended,
So it's like having been blind the last 14
or so billions years so it wouldn't matter

If all of a sudden I were to see one
Because by then I'd be so close
I wouldn't have time to report to you.

In the scale of things and time
We are of microscopic magnitude
And when we're being swallowed

By one of those dark behemoths
We don't feel it. Well, sometimes
I wonder what's that shortness

Of breath is all about which could be
The sucking vacuum effect.
What I worry to no end

Is what happens when a black hole
Ingests another and wonder
How ravenous can the gods be?

And whether the displacement
Of the center of gravity of their belly
Is of any significance to us.

Monday, June 7, 2010
Topic(s) of this poem: pome
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