I Hate Poetry
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I hate the rhymes and the times you’d write lines
only to have the letters spit themselves back in your face,
make you choke on the syllables and every beating vowel.
I hate the rules,
I’d be a fool because last time I checked
the charter of my rights gave me the freedom to repress
and express all the need and the greed
coupling the anxiety to feed upon white marble tables
like this was the last supper,
to feel and knead the bread baked in the Earth’s thermal ovens,
creating waves of savior
to crash upon the shore of famine and corrupt misbehavior.
I hate the reeling of the poetic lines
weaved in iambic pentameter to catch the perfect rhymes,
strung around her neck to dazzle and choke,
to glimmer in the hope of getting under her skin,
to make her feel,
to bubble and swell and crawl up her windpipe,
balance and bounce on her vocal cords
until they can spring their way to the light at the end of the tunnel,
like penguins to the sea,
only to devour the next passion junkie,
to consume his lame design and cripple his slurred speech,
like a cancerous river driving straight towards town,
to infect his gutters and overflow his sewers,
to flood the basements of every unpublished non-rent-payer
and soak the drywall into a pulpy leprosy sonnet.
I hate being starved of this inspiration,
being dictated and designed to create
as if we were bred to produce something astounding,
phenomenal,
something lasting and indefinite
as if we were the architect of the masses,
shaping the shameless because
we are divine.
We are more than holy,
we are Gods
and we will kill to prove it so.
"Cause I want to build my bones into cribs and lay my reluctance to rest.
Test what it would be like to live phonetically, to hold you unapologetically.
To plant a giving tree on my front lawn, so that when you’re gone
It can give you back to me."
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It’s amazing, reading these old messages of ours, that all it took was one painful act to turn us from something white-hot and electric into strangers. It’s nuclear fission, the splitting of a particle and the intense wave of energy that results, all of it eating me alive. It’s a white witch moth in reverse, furling its wings and crawling back into its cocoon. I can scarcely recall writing these words. I can scarcely believe that you read them and made promises neither one of us could keep.
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Light
10) Light can make some people sneeze
Between 18% and 35% of the human population is estimated to be affected by a so-called “photic sneeze reflex,” a heritable condition that results in sneezing when the person is exposed to bright light.9) Plato thought that human vision was dependent upon light, but not in the way you’re imagining
In the 4th Century BC, Plato conceived of a so-called “extramission theory” of sight, wherein visual perception depends on light that emanates from the eyes and “seizes objects with its rays.”8) Einstein was not the first one to come up with a theory of relativity
Many people associate “the speed of light” with Einstein’s theory of relativity, but the concept of relativity did not originate with Einstein. Props for relativity actually go to none other thanGalileo, who was the first to propose formally that you cannot tell if a room is at rest, or moving at a constant speed in one direction, by simply observing the motion of objects in the room.7) E=mc^2 was once m=(4/3)E/c^2
Einstein was not the first person to relate energy with mass. Between 1881 and 1905, several scientists — most notably phycisist J.J. Thomson and Friedrich Hasenohrl — derived numerous equations relating the apparent mass of radiation with its energy, concluding, for example, thatm=(4/3)E/c^2. What Einstein did was recognize the equivalence of mass and energy, along with the importance of that relevance in light of relativity, which gave rise to the famous equation we all recognized today.6)The light from the aurorae is the result of solar wind
When solar winds from cosmic events like solar flares reach Earth’s atmosphere, they interact with particles of oxygen atoms, causing them to emit stunning green lights. These waves of light — termed the aurora borealis and aurora australis (or northern lights and southern lights, respectively) — are typically green, but hues of blue and red can be emitted from atmospheric nitrogen atoms, as well.5) Neutrinos aren’t the first things to apparently outpace the speed of light
The Hubble telescope has detected the existence of countless galaxies receding from our point in space at speeds in excess of the speed of light. However, this still does not violate Einstein’s theories on relativity because it is space — not the galaxies themselves — that is expanding away (a symptom of the Big Bang), and “carrying” the aforementioned galaxies along with it.4) This expansion means there are some galaxies whose light we’ll never see
As far as we can tell, the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. On account of this, there are some who predict that many of the Universe’s galaxies will eventually be carried along by expanding space at a rate that will prevent their light from reaching us at any time in the infinite future.3) Bioluminescence lights the ocean deep
More than half of the visible light spectrum is absorbed within three feet of the ocean’s surface; at a depth of 10 meters, less than 20% of the light that entered at the surface is still visible; by 100 meters, this percentage drops to 0.5%.2) Bioluminescence: also in humans!
Bioluminescene isn’t just for jellyfish and the notorious, nightmare-inducing Anglerfish; in fact, humans emit light, too. All living creatures produce some amount of light as a result of metabolic biochemical reactions, even if this light is not readily visible.1) It’s possible to trick your brain into seeing imaginary (and “impossible”) colors
Your brain uses what are known as “opponent channels” to receive and process light. On one hand, these opponent channels allow you to process visual information more efficiently (more on this here), but they also prevent you from seeing, for example, an object that is simultaneously emitting wavelengths that could be interpreted as blue and yellow — even if such a simultaneous, “impossible” color could potentially exist.It blows my mind how little we know about a ‘substance,’ if you will, that is all around us every day.
The eyes of Marines before, during & after Afghanistan. Photographed by Dutch photographer Claire Felicie.
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Where in the universe is the person thinking about the universe? At first sight, This question may not make much sense nor will it appear to be particularly thought-provoking. But to fathom its staggering meaning we must first grasp an enthralling supposition…
Envision an artist who decides to paint a depiction of his own studio. An unabridged painting must include the studio containing the painter painting the picture. This results into an infinite phenomena: the picture must show the painter painting the picture that shows the painter painting the picture…and so on.
This hypothesis can be applied to much more magnificent scale, also known as the containment riddle: Where in the universe is the person thinking about the universe?The universe contains the person thinking about the universe that contains the person thinking about the universe that contains the person thinking about the universe and so on, unlimitedly.
Its absolutely riveting to ponder on!
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To Fly Free in Space
You have no idea what I would give to be here. I would willingly and happily die if only I got the chance to be here first.
What if we all instantly awakened to learn that each and every trivial aspect of our ‘reality’ was merely a vivid dream? All our achievements and failures would turn out to be a trifle. Each and every matter that ever agitated us would vaporize into void. Yet, so would our sources of pleasure. All out joys and traumas would turn out to be a stimulation of our own intricate encephalon. Our undivided lives, from the moment we came into existence to the people we have become, would simply turn out to be an extensive fantasy.
What if we were nothing but one of the innumerable experiments of a far more formidable, noteworthy and magnificently intelligent species. “Lets create a novel form of species…” they would say, “with an instinct of survival that would give them the capacity of utmost violence yet a great proficiency to love and reason.” I imagine that they would command natural selection and dominate its evolution to ensure that it resulted into the current Homo sapiens. And now, they sit back and observe their creation and ponder on whether it is love or greed that would be the victor of this thrilling battle.
What if we we’re nothing but a computer program? All our actions, decisions and feelings programmed within us through a keyboard. We would posses no free will for each and every attribute of ours had already been decided by another being capable of intelligent thoughts beyond our imagination? It would program consciousness and free will to be a mere illusion. There would be no escaping this computerized world.
What if we were the consequence of another individual’s thoughts and creative power? Each time a certain individual was to envision a diverging world; it would come into being in another parallel universe. Perhaps, The same analogy could apply to all of us. All our imaginations, thoughts and ideas would become actuality whilst we were heedless of it all. Seemingly, all extraordinary novels, movies and songs would be reality in other universes. And so, the beings in our creative would, would have their own imagination that would result into new parallel universe. And then their beings in those universes would imagine new worlds and so on, indefinitely. I wonder who was the very initial being to set off this everlasting chain of parallel universes. What would become if this very first individual (or being of any other species beyond our imagination) ceased to exist? Would the chain break and all universes see their end?
What if another exceptionally intelligent species began observing us from the heavens? What would they make our peculiar behavior as we maltreated our home, put to death our own brothers and drooled greedily over wealth and power? Perhaps, they would throw their heads back (if they have any) and laugh at our endless imbecility. They would ridicule our seemingly feeble scientific theories and sneer at us as we drove ourselves unto the verge of extinction. What if they were currently amongst us? They would conceal themselves as human beings and silently observe, scrutinize and report our peculiar behavior.
What if each and every remarkable discovery, from the vastness of the cosmos to the inconceivably minute particles of quantum mechanics was a mere product of our own brains? What if, our engine of curiosity was the very creator of our universe? We would turn out to be structuring and shaping the universe around us, as we hunt for knowledge. We believe we are discovering, where in fact we could be creating. What if its all in our head?
I’ve thought about that last one a lot. What if everything I believe to be true, my entire reality is just that: mine. What if The Matrix is a projection of my subconscious to give me a clue to an entirely different reality, an experimental one, which restates the question: ‘what if this is all a dream?’
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