LARGE HADRON COLLIDER
Lab coat voyeurs
collide
scatter
Protons bloom
one nanosecond
two
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Lace webs sprout
charm quarks
like Cheshire cats
MAXWELL’S DEMON
Demon bars a door
too tiny
for the likes of us to see
He lets fast atoms pass
from B to A
Their slower cousins
from A to B
Exclusion being
so small a price
to pay for immortality
MUSIC FOR THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE
“There’s music in everything, even defeat.”
—Charles Bukowski
Last star ember
goes dark
Every atom freezes
absolute zero
A mournful oboe
lingers
wavers
stops
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