I Wanted to Sneak
Lightly Outside Science
'S Electric Fence Wanted to fly
Upside down over salt sea rock
And Himalayan ice Wanted to avoid
Susan's orange parfums her ginger-snap
Pavlovian Sirenics and escape Earth's
Bluesy theme song "The
Me-My-I-Myself-Mine
Caw-Caw"
Wanted a large scale tour
Of the entire physical universe
With its Charmed Quarky Photonic Forces
Its little translation boutique for Space
And Time Wanted to see light glowing
In twelve gorgeous flavors
Without the background hum
Of human parasites Their famous words
There’s nothing out there
except us Nothing
John McKernan
If you have any comments on this poem, John McKernan
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