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An Observation

by Robin Helweg-Larsen

If particles only exist as waves,
precipitating out only when measured, seen,
till then just ghostly, nebulous, roughed-in...
If that’s the way the universe behaves,
then who’s to say the moons of Jupiter
existed before Galileo scoped
them out? Our simple world had coped,
pre-Hubbell, without needing to infer
a billion galaxies. Again, if things
newly observed are different than before,
then things that once were real are real no more,
especially nebulous, wave-form, with wings,
hence dragons, fairies, elves all now seem odd...
and angels, demons, giants, ghosts... and God.


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