#227 - a Schrödinger’s Covid lockdown cat

 

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a Schrödinger’s Covid lockdown cat

decoherence

 

 

I worked out a way to be here and not

there anywhere

not someone else

 

in a tired house

to be built

view out

 

no visitors  

but what a party!

called the cops

and nobody’s home

 

all the bad numbers are up some more

 

the cat is wanted dead and alive

there, not and just an exercise

 

this year might have never happened again

 

I worked out a way to be here

by other means

for instance by the book

 

more than one way to get a skinful

swing the thing for good measure

 

entanglement!

(with/without cat)

 

in one world

measurement slows the arrow

in another we’re vaccinated for this

 

I worked out a way to be here and not

you can do this kind of thing in a dream

in the feasting in the dream you’re flesh

 

(in one cannibal there’s indigestion

another is vegan by now)

 

in all the rooms of the garden

in all the mansion halls of home

 

it’s how

it’s where

we are the gods

 

intentions irrelevant

 

here, smoke from a fire that never was

or vented

so the whole world goes up, smokelessly

but not another, identical

 

does the forbidden city exist?

 

each of us

a silent felled forest

far from observation

 

should we survive

what we’ll remember

is having lived all along