parallel universe – poems 2 die for

SMARTS

I think he was
the man who invented
the quantum camera

will give you an
exact picture
of the person
you are
entangled with

will produce selfies
for you of all
your alternate
selves and identities
in every possible
parallel universe

let you
see what might
have been

and what you
cannot believe
was possible at all

but I wonder
if it was he in fact
the him
that invented it

or whether he stole
it from his entangled other
or parallel person
of same identity

blessed with
better luck or
superior smarts

Timeline

TIMELINE

Christopher
in this timeline

never makes it
to the New World
his ships got stopped
in their tracks
by metal flying machines
with stars on the wings
and the power
to sink his
every ship
in half a second

huge metal boats
surfaced from under
the water
which appeared to
have a few aboard who
could speak Spanish
or Italian

who told him
in no uncertain terms
to return whence he came

there, upon his arrival in Cadiz,
no one would believe
his story

and even under torture
the Inquisition in Madrid
could not extract
a plausible account

and, thus, in these
grave circumstances
determined he must be silenced

the thought of such
an advanced civilization
across the Atlantic
would shake
the Church to its core
and threaten the sovereignty
of every European nation.

RIDE a thought experiment: imagine we are in a parallel universe where there are no thought experiments no leap of faith analogies where Einstein was a plodder without the imagination to extend parameters, push envelopes, explode paradox and we all stuck in the old Isaac Newton prison of cast-iron space and time yes this is my little poetic thought experiment happy you joined me as here we hit light speed everything now counter-intuitive about this ride