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Missed By No One

The vaccum is nonesuch!
A mere curvature of dimensions
threaded dark and tangled hot
with only dots of million degree fires far away
peering through it without eyes
meaningless and identical photons passing

The sudden appearances of twins, virtual
inevitable, and random vanishings
in galatic winds prevail out here, with
nothing-nutrinos heating stellar gas,
loose masses swelling unseen in system-sized whirlpools
energy chaotic, the landscape of deep space.

All this wonder floats in between
filaments of fuzzy gaussion spirals
dotted here and there with explosions
yielding the ultimate death
of black deaths--lost millions
into one-way exits from the only here that there is

If you set the bearing of your space faring
sight to the light, you will see the storm gather
electric in upon itself and though hardly dense
it tangles into a fractal riot!
Twisting constructions grow larger and larger
stacking, syndicating, connecting, testing

The vacuum abounds and surrounds
some mad programmer's attempts--
its hot vast power bent by massive
spherical fires, clumping more and more
dense strings that only copy and
know no more

A dance, a rush, a sudden burst
before extinction and
again and faster still
no one watching, the copying
continues as complexity begats complexity
until strange new lights appear

Inner lights in an inner vacuum
Complexity yields classification; sinewy muscular,
noticing itself with wide wet eyes
questions come to the vaccum, witnessing the curvature of
a face moving over the water
distorted, though eyes know somehow

From towering ferment
Indescribable energy and temperature
Forever and ever cooled
its temper and torrent has
coalesced and cooled
so that it would see

Entropy still rears his head
and is not done with the fire of
the heart of the universe yet,
so we must wonder, if the vision
so fantastic and imbied with vanity
since it *is* and nothing isn't:

It is only what has ever been,
one exuberant catastrophic euphoric
burst of knowing. It
looks at itself, wondering through
me (at this moment) if
it's vision is a passing one
some one day missed by no one

This poem was written by Russell Warner on Apr 24, 2008.

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