LIKE THESE

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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