SLICK

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comic, Creation, Light, loneliness, metapoetic, Mirror, philosophical, philosophy, poem, poetry, poststructuralist, relativity, science, Stars, Universe, wordplay, writing

SLICK

in a galaxy
far, far away

another you reading
another me
writing

bored
out of
our tiny minds

it’s something to do
with parsecs and
light-speed

alternate universes and
the mathematical possibility
of mirrors
that this
drab little poem
has garnered the status
of cosmic joke
slick
as a
Cheshire
cat’s mind

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LESSON

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BREXIT, Britain, British, Einstein, Ending, Intellectual, loss, philosophical, poem, poetry, Shakespeare

LESSON

it started as gut feeling
then intellectual exercise:
draw ever narrowing circles

on this same blackboard
where the dust itself
magically transposed
into telescope looking
into ever-expanding galaxy

into tiny equation
that said everything

how human being is
light might
be turned to fire

no one reads those blackboards now
the world they were portal into
simply run out of everything
except billboard idea

the change so fast
that dust so volatile

a country that has wished
the worst days upon itself
rushing towards
its gorgeous nemesis
like a meteor

let me
try the virtue of patience
staring deep into
that chalk

iconic chalk you
might
add in, your fivepence worth
wishing to caricature

once there wax Empire, for all its deep sin,
this place concentric, its thinking radial

now nothing crosses
to these shores, we have made
ourselves taboo, insufferably precious

that poet whose words they wrote in chalk:
now there was a lesson!

INTERLOCK

Tags

Beauty, Desire, erotic, female, innuendo, Language, love, Metaphor, Metaphysical, philosophy, poem, poetry, poststructuralist, relativity, Sexual, Sexual innuendo, woman, wordplay, writing

INTERLOCK

let me walk you
through the procedure

no need to run
we can go so
so slowly
watch the snails
zoom past at
relative speed

no need to
use that hard Newtonian
word “velocity”
later physics Newtonian
notions of freedom,
friction and resistance
opposite and
opposing forces
will all have
their place
all have their say

speaking of which
let me talk you
through everything
devise a poetry of
delay and deferral
to celebrate
every centimeter
indulge (in measure imperial)
every square
inch of your body

I say inch, but I am of course,
measuring in circles, and ellipses
and one-sided Möbius strips
that perfectly interlock

LIGHT SPEED

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lightspeed, loss, poem, poetry, relativity, Separation

LIGHT SPEED

you left me
disappeared faster
than Sunday morning

came back
years later, acting
as if
nothing has changed,
things still
the same

wherever you
escaped to

must have
reached there
at light speed

PUNCHLINE

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black hole, cosmic, Parallel universe, poem, poetry, singularity, wormhole

PUNCHLINE

crushed
like a beetle

popped
like a balloon

something is out there
creating fissures, holes
in space-time

tiny perforations
in the fabric of the Universe
so that they might
ascend the dais
speak the
singular truth of
their wormholing from
one
to another
parallel reality

whilst you and I
sink into that swirl, disappear
from view totally beyond
the event horizon

take a selfie of yourself, photoshop
your identity out
of this predicament

the darkness laughing at us
we are
joke’s punchline

TO THE CONTRARY

Tags

absurd, poem, poetry, relativity, Universe

the Earth
is moving

the kitchen
is moving

both are moving
relative to
each other

meanwhile
down in Houston
confidence is high
this year’s Nobel Prize

will go to a human
and not to an alien

except that prize
for plays, poems, stories
which always
goes to an alien
(this being
just how things are)

meanwhile in my
corner of the cosmos
my microwave is broken
openly mocking, laughing
at me because
I lack the physics
to fix it

both of us signs
of that residual energy which once went orgasmic
before time-space and its converse
which we also
had to invent

RUNNING OUT

Tags

poem, poetry, relativity, time, Universe

time was running out
so I bought six sixty clocks

sat watching them the whole day
waiting for you
to arrive
at liqhtspeed

IN THE CENTRE (MR VENTER)

Tags

poem, poetry, postmodern, poststructuralist, relativity, Universe

IN THE CENTRE
(MR VENTER)

the Universe
has no
centre

and if
it did it
would not
be
you

a poem
too
has no
centre

but point
of focus
it may
well do

and
if it does it
would have
to be you

RELATIVE

Tags

poem, poetry, relativity

RELATIVE

everything is relative
even death
may
be relative

with this in mind
I set about constructing an absolute
(in a rush since
already
dystopia moving
up the road)

but where to
find
in this day
and age
short of
heart’s truth

or druggy fantasy
of a dream

DEFAULT POSITION

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poem, poetry, relativity, time, Universe

DEFAULT POSITION

clock is cake
carve it up

clock is
bandits
at angels plenty

pick them
off, carve
them
up

clock is subatomically correct
on a commercial plane
proving Einstein
was on
his game

cough it up
cough it up

see for yourself
if fast-moving cough isn’t
in fact
slower by
billionth of
a second

slow time a racehorse
fast time a snail

backwards time
how the Angels travel
(this the
holy grail)

enough paradox in this poem
to take with you to second coming
(or an early grave)