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August 29, 2022

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Being much more literal-minded than Mr. Sisskind or Mr.Schreiner, I suppose, may I offer a variation on this theme, taken from my book COSMIC QUESTIONS - POEMS IN OUR GALACTIC MOMENT (2021)


Big Bang

How they say it was:

14 billion years ago, and the whole damned universe
was only a dot—
a very, very, very hot and very, very, very dense dot—
but it had a growth spurt,
an “inflation,” doubling in size 90 times, then cooling
but still too hot
for light to shine out— until the age of “re-ionization”
when gases began
forming stars— ours igniting some 9 billion years after
the cosmic ka-pow
along with billions more. So the Milky Way emerged,
and our solar system began
spinning its way toward us— and all the damned bangs
we have made.

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Translation:

nothing
nothing
nothing
nothing
nothing

BANG!

something
something
something
something
something

etc.

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