RELATIVE

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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

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THANKS STANLEY

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arrogance, male, narcissism, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, pride, satire, Universe

THANKS STANLEY

thanks Stanley
but you
can put away
your monolith
put it
back
in its box

we do not
need your
star child

we have the
leaders going
to
undo
evolution
to take us back

to the sick, sorry
sad apes
we always were

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

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poem, poetry

got this A. I. chip
to contract my
write-time
extend my repertoire

simply those algorithms
poets have to perform

reduce a
single metaphor
to a millionth of
a second

significant
reduction from
the stand real-
time computational

experience
of a lifetime

CIRCUMFERENCE

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poem, poetry

CIRCUMFERENCE

I tried to
calculate you
circumference

but fell into an abyss
of imaginary and
irrational numbers

tried to
plot your path but
you were moving through
too many dimensions

I thought about you laughing,
smiling, breaking bread,
drinking wine
whilst part of your brain
was Oh so many light years away
thinking the
physics that would
bend space time when

we rose to the occasion, found the
crazy grace to imagine it would

and yet
dark countdowns

in those equations
as prophesied, as the figures
stacked like soldiers
in their love columns
did
not foreswear, as

they said they would
(all our human history pretty
much such a Möbius strip).

SOMETHING AND NOTHING

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poem, poetry, Universe

SOMETHING AND
NOTHING

in my something
and nothing poem

I try to argue
there is always
something

to cherish, or to
irritate the shit
out of you

but isn’t that better
than nothing
that thing we
cannot get
our heads around?
(maybe if the
brain were
more like
a donut…)

so here is something
and there nothing
here
light

there darkness

here matter
there anti-matter

here words
there
blank screen
blank paper

they say
(the cosmologists do)
that it makes no sense
to argue like a wizened stalwart
of the theological seminary
“why
is there
something rather
than nothing

why do these subatomic particles
behave like waves and
behave like
particles
is it
just
to mess with us?

why did I write this silly,
pretentious, pseudo-
metaphysical poem

unless to
tease and
amuse you with

my terror
of the nothing

ECLIPSE

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poem, poetry, Universe

ECLIPSE

viewed from
Space we
must be
in eclipse

I laughed at Archimedes
with his lever
we had a beer
played some
poker

and then (with
two errant Martians)
a game of Bridge

I played hearts
he drew diamonds
and when I
dug deep into
my spades

that Greek bastard
trumped me

NOOSE

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poem, poetry, Universe

NOOSE

I know some
stuff about
quantum
mechanics

a little about
string theory, too

but not enough
to change my
emotional
orientation

in fact, not
even enough
to tie a noose.

CHEMISTRY

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female, male, poem, poetry, sexual symbolism, Water power astrological

we have
such good chemistry

we bond, attach, react, dissolve
once we have started
there is no stopping us

our dealings are the hot exchanges
in the stars
after which we float
through space
as plasma and gases, iridescent,
beautifully spent

twin galaxies wrapped together
spiral arm around
spiral arm

and the
nuclear physics of our love-making
enough with
a single touch
to light
a city
or set it alight

the way we fuse, like sodium and
chlorine do when I taste the
sweet salt of your body
or hydrogen
falling into oxygen’s
inescapable embrace
(creature of air bubbling through
this creature
of water)

we have
chemistry
are chemistry is
this ongoing
life-love process

beyond which however having
found each other, we
decay beyond our
half-lives
simply
evaporate — are

beautiful chemistry, text-
book chemistry

but beyond this
love laboratory
are nothing
immutable

are
(sadly) no
thing at all

RIGHT PLACE

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poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire

RIGHT PLACE

you came to
the right place

if you want fast
poetry

place your order to go
everything on the menu
comes with
side serving of kitsch
and slab
of processed cheese

best thing since
Big Bang or
advent of
sliced cliché

THIS NIGHT THIS DAY

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poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, Universe

THE NIGHT THIS DAY

right now
the Universe is
experiencing
runaway inflation

lucky we got electricity
so no longer need
to gaslight our lives as
if it were a street

under these orange sodium
fuzz-balls of light

I stagger home a
little drunk

I say home
but these are

University flats built on
the very spot where Engels
hosted Marx
there is

a plaque

still something Victorian in the air
and the ghosts of those
two old dynamos
worshipped, hated there

when those
graves were dug, they thought “finally”
but let’s go deeper if needs be
err of the side of safety

the high-rise shapes of the
Institute of Technology

North of
England can get so cold

these words
coughed, fizzed,
spluttered

shame
there is no flame
cold
as a gaunt Cathedral

let’s not talk architecture
design so removed
from the night this day