A Schmear of Probabilty on the Bagel of My Life
Poem Against Nuclear Power Industry
My house is built with Heisenberg struts
and joiners and joists and beams,
It requires no maintenance as long
as no one looks!
thereby collapsing the wave function
into Tivoli gardens;
It is a schmear of probability
wide spread on the bagel of my life.
One cannot see the dadoes nor the cuts
only smooth transition seams,
fibers run like termites to prolong
brackets one sees!
force-fields and vector-jackets both junction
and bracket protozoans.
it's the sum of all my ungefillte
wishes, all now fargeyts, in midst of strife.
Challa baked before all time, and blintzes
with spin and strange and charms:
ingredients of house and song!
blessings we view!
quantum cats like matza ball abstraction,
rolled in egg and sold in tins;
Upon a cross of nuclear energy
crucify us now!: husband, children, wife!
Heisenberg
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notes
Theme: Nuclear Physics and Quantum Physics.
Heisenberg: Werner Heisenberg, quantum physicist
Tivoli: garden and park in Denmark, reference to Niels Bohr
ungefillte: unfilled
fargeyts: forget, forgotten
Challa: challa bread for shabbas
blintzes: Jewish crepes.
matza: a meal made of crumbled matza crackers usually rolled into balls for dumplings in matza ball soup.
quantum cat: Schrodinger's cat, a famous quantum paradox.
The rhyme scheme/ structure is:
a b c (vision word) d e f g
a b c (vision word) d e f g
a b c (vision word) d e f g
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2 comments:
I love quantum physics, but I agree that the nuclear industry is a very misjudged means by which to deliver energy and so forth.
I thought it was really elegant how you melded science with religion and even the simple things in life:
"quantum cats like matza ball abstraction,
rolled in egg and sold in tins;
Upon a cross of nuclear energy
crucify us now!: husband, children, wife!"
But when you talked about wave function collapse, I shivered with ecstasy (perhaps an exaggeration), but withal, I really like quantum physics.
Was the riveting together of science and aspects of religion intentional or sort of quixotic: dropping onto the screen in the heat of the moment?
Another great meditation to set my mind a twinkle!
Ben
Intentional all the way. The Yiddish part of the title - which I neglected to translate - says "Kosher Physics" which combines foodstuffs and Physics... Religion is always hanging around...
These things are not so much "Tags" and names of phenomena; "religion", "sociology", "physics", etc. as they are a cast of the usual "suspects" guilty of the creation of the world.
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