It has been a rough week.
Monday was dog-eared and dozing.
The world ended on Tuesday -
so not a great start.
Wednesday, not surprisingly,
did not know how to break the news.
The planet carried on being essentially global
while millions of people seemingly not to care
that they were no longer there.
There were many afterlife tragedies,
rumors of leaky unsustainable beliefs,
suicides were tried but to no avail.
Everywhere there were catastrophic failures
of restroom facilities.
Thursday dissolved quietly
unwilling to confirm or deny its existence.
Those still able to crawl to work
did so in their dreaming skulls.
Friday absentmindedly tried to begin again
then remembered.
The few who thought it might only be
a cosmic PowerGrid blip
were assured by ghostly astrophysicist
that the world would return
and apologized for all the fuss.
However, as happened,
the weekend really was the END.
May we be blessed to understand
The words of Hubert Reeves…
a famous Canadian Astrophysicist…
allow me paraphrase what he believes:
We are a most insane species…
(he writes so beautifully)
we worships invisible gods
while destroying a nature we can see…
Unaware that the nature we’re destroying…
(so indiscriminately)
is the very God we’re worshiping…
the one we cannot see.
May we be blessed to understand
The words of Hubert Reeves…
a famous Canadian Astrophysicist…
allow me paraphrase what he believes:
We are a most insane species…
(he writes so beautifully)
we worships invisible gods
while destroying a nature we can see…
Unaware that the nature we’re destroying…
(so indiscriminately)
is the very God we’re worshiping…
the one we cannot see.
The fastest man made object was launched into space
On August 27 in 1957 from a nuclear explosion without a spacecraft’s grace
When an American Robert Brownlee an astrophysicist left over
A 485 foot hole a half ton metal cover
Earlier on 26 July 1957 they did the same thing
Launching the manhole cover into space with an explosive ring
So they decided to film it this time round
To calculate how fast and how far it flew to find it on the ground
So they exploded the bomb in quite a show
Creating the world’s greatest Roman candle all a glow
So the end of the countdown came
And the bomb exploded with flame
And the camera filmed the launch of the manhole cover
Travelling at 125,000 mph over
Being 4 times the speed needed to leave the earth
So it travelled out into space
Amazing the scientists in that place
So they calculated that it left the solar system in the 1961 year
Provided it passed the planets clear
But I like to think that it’s in an alien museum display
With them pondering Made in the USA.
© Paul Warren Poetry
We often forget to thank Mother Nature
Every morning on queue, there's Ursa Major
An astrophysicist I'm not
But brain cells I got
Just enough to keep me from molesting my neighbour
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