A thing cannot be and not be
At the same time and in the same
Respect not if we expect logic
And reason to work someone should
Have told Max Planck and the quantum
Crowd but I doubt it would have
Changed matters they had so
Much to point to the double slit
Quandary black body radiation
The funny things that happen
When you observe an experiment
Compared to what happens
When you don’t poor Schrodinger’s
Cat did he make it or not tiny things
Obeyed puzzling rules Richard
Feynman famously stated if you
Think you understand quantum
Mechanics you don’t last night
Trying to grasp the umpteenth
You tube documentary I felt I
Was beginning to get it experts
Say without the math you’re
Not really able to in the slightest
That settles it I crapped
Out in integral calculus and to
This day I can’t say why I had
Always been quick with math
Perhaps I was discovering
Other studies history literature
Of course I was in one of my chronic
Depressions that probably
Accounts for my losses those years
I was not in the mood to compete
Where before I had sailed through
Maybe my interest now
In late life is an attempt
To make up for forsaken glory
Compelled to achieve again
To study integral calculus get
More than a poet’s knowledge
Of modern science physics for
Poets is what we jocularly called
The course I took in college I am
Not tempted in the slightest to
Review my grade I fear I did terribly
An awful lot hinges on whether
A thing can be and not be at the
Same time and in the same respect
And in quantum mechanics there
Seem to be plenty examples of
Precisely that particles being waves
Vice versa entanglements of
Particles across immense distances
The strict determinism of Newton’s
Universe of billiard balls predictable
In location momentum poof all gone
Einstein was convinced God did not
Play dice with the universe but there
It was for none to contest at the very
Base of our being nothing
To count on
c. J.S.Manista, 2015
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