Three Poems
by KJ Hannah Greenberg

 

 

Stemwinder

 

Rousing speeches aside, vulpine candidates use smoky

Quarters to fill coffers with campaign monies, crooked

Allies, else “friends of the press.”

 

Self-regarding “clever phrases” & appeals to pity, sometimes

Black mail, such persons never fail to pollute ambient moods

Or swing partnerships to profits.

 

“Cunningness,” eventually, necessitates disregarding perdition,

Closing eyes to impoverished babies, looking elsewhere if any

Reports of rape are filed.

 

It’s “crafty” players, after all, whose thew gets measured in soundbites.

Stupefied masses remain easily spurred toward finding their pocket on

Polls that “really matter.”

 

 

 

 

 

MacGuffin

 

Insignificant, unimportant, irrelevant object,

Such as Presidential candidates spouting all

Manner of balderdash.

 

Such as promised decreases in energy bills,

Food costs, rent. Also, mythical beings like

Fair trade, peace.

 

Sure, articulated opinions might be needed

To promote political agendas. Yet, these

Motivators rot.

 

Rhetorical dust corners protect few precious

Objects; more so, they’re installed to appeal

As shiny bits.

 

Even with apophenia, no person associates

Polished brass with momentous goings-on,

Else salvation.

 

 

 

 

 

The Wave Function of Probability Distribution:

Parenting Boys

 

We moderate uncertainty by electing a single wavelength, via

Attending to one child’s needs, not fathoming station/moment

Simultaneously, whatsoever. Predictability isn’t measurement,

Isn’t accurately knowing when baseball, else trumpet practice,

Ends—won’t rearrange preteen ability packets into neat orbits.

 

Locating electrons, typically, like shepherding school children,

Involves suppositions per singular locations of moving objects.

Quantities, single-handed, verify place, shackle atomic matter,

Sons, to precise positions. Else, the universe proves genuinely 

Random, wave functions & relationships verging on collapse.

 

Probability distribution-interference patterns denote all overlaps

Spreading among wave entrances, cancelling each other. Youths

Seeking hidden quantum realms will forever find ample ciggies,

Whiskey, more doses. Rash lasses, ill-advised protons, cleave to

Fetching chaps, trump common sense, fashion stout distractions.

 

There exists waves that don’t sync with the world, don’t weigh up

Themselves as solid particles barrier-handicapped. Such geniuses

Might establish software companies, vacate college, maybe, purr

Huskily into microphones while on world tour. The same, they’ll

Mix with sorts collapsing their function and ruining their purpose.

 

We specify an agent’s coherent degree of belief (credence) in various

Alternative experiences resulting from identifiable performed action;

The drama of equestrian competitions, cookoffs. Fishing contests not

Excepted, we can quantize, to evident values, uncertainty’s degree -

Surprise acne & bursting testosterone, besides friends, crash mixtures.

 

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