MULTIVERSE POP

DoubleSpeak, 2024

Quantum thought eliminates the need for binary truths.

I drive on the wrong side of the road whenever I can.

When patterns repeat, ideas appear, there’s simplicity in that.

Good teachers teach basic concepts and break all the rules.

Plot twists. Ruby shoots Oswald. Romeo loves Juliet.

Juliet loves Romeo. Kesey gets the keys to a closet.

I’m as okay as a sensitive person can be. I talk to birds.

Multiverse pop. The compass tells me the direction I’m heading,

but won’t ever say which way to go.

Adam is too busy counting to notice Eve needs more.

Tom Tyler said we were living in a golden age,

a time when it was easy to roam, easy to go here and there.

No one believed him. Now, we get what he meant.

Tact, kindness and trust look inward. The madder I get

the further out I go. Normal is a place somewhere in Illinois.

Early one morning the sun was shining.

It doesn’t matter if the rest of the story is true.

Who I meet, what I feel, keeps me coming back.

Mad poets of America unite. Be exuberant.

We, who were alive before time,

woke up here as children, wordless, screaming, helpless,

-finding ourselves having to unlearn what’s being taught.