LIKE THESE
strange that so
many
ultimate particles
can turn
off
the great on
switch
can turn
the bright cosmos
to
one deep
dark
dead
hole
the more we discover,
the more we learn
the worse
it grows
the more
mathematically certain
so much
bad down there in
the small print, subtext
that is fatal
quark, quantum, strangelet,
neutron, Higgs Boson
so much out there
could be
our annihilation
just one
moment here and pop!
gone the next
not fusion, not fission,
but more absurd demise
new set of
parameters, laws, that
change
our entire situation
rewriting the Universe
in a way
not to think
about,
our minds ill-
equipped to envisage,
no one ever considered
nightmares like these.
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