More bad verse!

16 August 2012

More bad verse!

These three pieces were written in October 1973.

The Absurd

Essence
Existence
and the absurdity
in between.
If zero
is nothing 
what then 
is infinity.
To live
and not
to know
is not to live.
Let me
live and
commit suicide
but not murder.

(22 October 1973)

Promises to Keep

My past is strewn with memories glum
Cigarette butts and chewing gum...

I want to stop here and now
and vanish wondering why and how...

Yet I must let my memories fade
And keep promises I never made...

The road ahead is dark and steep
But I have promises to keep....

(23 October 1973)

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Knowledge isn't bad by itself
       But its application can be.
Science isn't bad by itself
       But these scientists can be.
Applied Maths can't kill you
        But A- Bomb can and will.
Oppenheimer died a natural death
         But the Hiroshima children
And the Nagasaki Grandchildren
        Died and will die most unnaturally.

If you want to perform useful work
        You need to get your ass off the ground,
Yet getting it off the ground may not
        Always lead to useful work.
Is that the second law of thermodynamics?
        It sure is a fact of life.

(circa November 1973)