The professor ran his hand
through chalk white hair
as old as anything.
“In summation,
there aren’t turtles
all the way down,
it ain’t strings all the way up,
and it certainly isn’t
time all the way back.”
The rest of his field
was straw compared
to all that he had seen.
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On the Matter of the Cause of the Universe
Posted in Poetry, tagged cause, matter, straw, Time on January 22, 2010| 6 Comments »