Bifocal Decay — a Canopus
Revenge of the Double-Slit Experiment
Neither particle nor rhythmic wave
Survives not first embarkations intact
Nor follows our rules, nor duly behave
Predictably, nor consistently act
When a duality of open doors
Doth welcome both, vibrations in entracte,
Between two worlds', vying in outcome wars
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With outcomes alternatively subsumed
It knows all future possibilities
And betrays entropy's abhorred vacuum
So nature betroths probabilities
That wax with terrible omnipotence
Till spoiled by rude visibility
Predestined by some greater omniscience
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We bear witness to how our paths transit
For us, but not for our diff'rent brothers
A one-way fool's trip through the double slits
A furtive bait-and-switch of diff'rent druthers
To fractal and deterministic ways
Unsame, strange children from the same mothers
Forever veered, from us, our paths aweigh
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The Canopus is a poetic form that is:
- a heptastich, a poem in 7 lines;
- metric, written in iambic pentameter; and
- rhymed, rhyme scheme ABABCBC.
About the Creator
Gerard DiLeo
Retired, not tired. In Life Phase II: Living and writing from a decommissioned Catholic church in Hull, MA. Phase I: was New Orleans (and everything that entails).
https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/
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Comments (1)
Well done friend.