Science, Fiction, Science Fiction

Science

 In the Beginning…  

 …there was something, 

 or nothing at all. 

 And nothing beget something, 

 or something always was.

In the beginning,

there was cause

and cause beget effect:    everything that ever was.

What caused the “In the Beginning…”

we call just because.

Ode to the Fractal

 You found randomness

 predictable

 and gave catastrophic significance

 to the butterfly.

You found patterns in a Universe,

 sporadic,

 and brought beauty to

 logic

 in a world where chaos

 reigns.

 Ode to the Space-Time Continuum

When nothing was there,

 you were.

Mother

When all life lived in the sea

 when the sea was all that we needed

 it was communism's first

 and only

 success.

                                     Then I

 took the outside in,

 turned sea to blood

 so "I"

 could leave.

 I've tried to go back

 to immerse myself,

 but I can't stay down for long.

 Inside,

 what nourishes

 and gives me life

outside,

 Might make me smother.

Entropy I: Religion

 Editions revised,

          translated,

                                   annotated

 Like images fading to their beginnings

 the reflection of

 a reflection of...

 yeast culture

 when the yogurt loses its flavor,

 but increases

Entropy II: Memory

Not like a photograph

 which browns and fogs…

 Like clay.

 It doesn't slip through the fingers

 but is rather

 transformed by them:

 the nose tweaked,

 the skin smoothed,

 a lump added to fill out the cheeks.

 The image no longer actual,

 historical

 but art

Entropy III:  Aging (or Memory II)

The body is replaced

every 23 days,

   the cells’ incessant refrain.

Do try to remember

how you played it before.

Entropy IV: Definition (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate

Dictionary)

The degradation of matter

and energy

in the universe

to an ultimate state of inert

uniformity.

Entropy V: Big Government

The first cells paid a big price,

gave up sovereignty and joined

then specialized, laid the plumbing,

the transportation, the communication,

and centralized authority.

But the law of entropy still holds!

From their complexity: a Universe

accelerating toward chaos.

Entropy VI: The Original Text

When Modern English

is as dead as Latin,

will it all be Greek to me?