Stewart McKenzie Poems

These quantum physicists would have us believe
That universe is full of motion detectors
That switch things off as we approach.
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OED Definition:
Bearing or enduring pain, affliction, or evil of any kind
without discontent or complaint
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It seems that gravity only attracts
In universes of middling sizes
When our universe was tiny
A quantum storm in the Ocean of Higgs
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False stasis of ping-pong ball
On fairground fountain
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There are two things I know about a horse

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Food
Shelter
Safety
Health
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On a trip to the zoo I came to a room
Where an orangutan was learning a language.
I watched for a while as this patient ape,
Plump from the food rewards of training,
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Monument Hill glows
A nimbus of dandelion puffballs
Backlit by the setting sun
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Scholarly obscurity may clarify
As the scholarship is re-enacted
Yielding meaning like skins of an onion
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There are no innocent bystanders.
Dependencies entangle us all.

War lurks in a tank of gas,
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