Black Hole
Failure cascades
through the system
in calamitous collapse.
The falling may continue
forever. No observers
will survive to know.
through the system
in calamitous collapse.
The falling may continue
forever. No observers
will survive to know.
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Author's Note
Prompted by a review of a new biography of Robert Oppenheimer.
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You always give me lots to contemplate, Gary. *
Carpe Diem*
Great sounds - c, s, f, v - which adds, for me, a sinister layer to the poem. Nothing wasted here. Good piece, Gary.
Agree with Foster. I feel the suck.*
Oh, well. As Jen says. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow isn't here yet. Go outside and play. *
Thank you, Foster. Jen, your remark expanded my sense of my own little poem. Thank you.
Sam, it is good to have a musical ear listening. Gary, the suck gets stronger daily for one reason or another hundred. Jake, your advice is quite fine.
Nice dark thing. Oppenheimer, huh? I like how such a large idea can be expressed in such a small space. Like this a lot.
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Love the cascade of alliterative sounds in this, which intensify the falling right up to the "o" sound of the ending, so final. Boom. *
Thank you for reading and commenting, Michelle and Chris.