Collapsed Lexicon | Page 120

  120   Schrödinger’s  Cat     She  is  releasing   a  poem  from  a  pen  that  she  claims  will  not  write   In  an  Indian  restaurant   2000  miles  away   And  I  am  sitting  in  Texas   Like  Schrödinger’s  cat   With  razor-­‐wire  and  shot  guns   and  a  beaker  of  State-­‐issued  cyanide   on  its  way  to  the  floor   Waiting   Waiting  for  the  future  to  offer   Another  chance  at  the  past     Truth  has  become  a  label     For  popular  approval   Binary  gravity  crushes  everyone,  if  we  are  worthy  at  all     Would  what  has  already  been,  exist   If  I  were  not  recalling  it  now?   If  you  were  not  looking  past  the  regret     In  the  lines  around  my  eyes?     She  knows  best,  a  shadow  me,     Constructed  from  yesterday's  tomorrows  and  dreams   Maybe,  she's  already  opened  that  door   Seen  my  small  feline  body  expired  on  the  floor   Or  maybe  I'm  still  there,  pawing  at  the  latch   Ready  to  claw  and  spit  and  scratch   like  Schrodinger's  cat