A Refusal to Mourn the Possible Death by Observation of Schrodinger's Cat
--with thanks to Dylan Thomas
by H. Palmer Hall
Not once until stars collide
And my flesh burns with unmediated
Over the earth-shattering oblivion
Absorbed into a billion stars
And galaxies whirl into unobserved
Oblivion, until birds, beasts
And flowers shed no more sperm, pollen,
And the dark night comes
When waves wash upon
The last wide-beached shore
Heat and the steam of the last
Boiled rivers rises in scalding mists
Shall I admit one iota of a doubt
Or adorn myself in black clothing
Amid mournful processions of the dead
That would murder
The felinity of his going with an observation
Nor wrest from him his final breath
With one single
Elegy for victimhood and truth.
Stalks Schrodinger's cat
Molecules spread out from the catmother's womb,
Hunting in the spiraling Milky Way
Of an expanding universe.
After the first observation, there can be no other.
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