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| this 23 year old collage writing experiment is my first poem |
SPACE in my mind is finitely large as the universe so many bodies beyond comprehension infinite in beauty a pulsar the burned out remains of a star with a last spark of life super collapsed to the size of the earth with a mean density of ten-to-the 15th grams-per-centimeter-cubed a sugar cube at one million billion grams imagine it rotating at over a hundred times per second emitting a beam flash of solid photons light with the power to rip you to bacon from a few light days away imagine a cloud of dust and gas glowing the color of hydrogen the remains of a star ripping the outer atmosphere off by a colossal surge outward... inward falling with only neutrons to keep it from shrinking to a singularity of an iron core dying star SUPERNOVA many things more beautiful than man made art to be IMAGINED CALCULATED AND THEORIZED THE UNIVERSE IN BETWEEN MY EARS IMAGINE.
---This piece was published in the 1988 Edition of the 20th Century: The Exquisite Corpse produced by Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon
The above was a piece I composed when I was a science student accomplishing college transfer courses in my last term at community college before I entered Linfield College.
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