Space (I believe in) — I’m tired of this world, everything’s fucked, and people are the worst. Okay, okay, I exaggerate, I’ll admit; But it seems to me, if it’s here with us Sooner or later, we’ll turn it to shit. Space though? We’ve telescopes to see, and minds so to wonder eternally; but not much else, as of our […]
A poem by Kenny Shen “Three…two…one… Laser’s on!” A switch is thrown, and A blinding beam screams from the telescope, Piercing the tranquil night sky. A blazing beacon of photons, Reaching into the heavens. Traveling 186,000 miles a second, Broadcast by inquiring minds, Making its lonely sojourn, Into the infinite, icy blackness beyond. What’s out there? Stars, galaxies, nebulae, A […]
Greetings, Scientific Slug blog readers! This fall quarter we are kicking off the blog with a poem by the one and only Brutus. Enjoy. Shakespeare! Weierstrass! Thank you for your leaps and bounds, your contributions to my arts! But I won’t forget you could have any name, or have never thought at all and I would still find something to […]
A rose unfolds, unravels and blooms Days and nights waltz quickly, a shuffling one, two Past the artist child’s eyes They glow- In rivers of golds and bursts of green the eyes of the little one grow With fascination the rose unfolds to reveal everything- Everything that we are – in it beauty In it jealousy and greed The thoughts […]
Once, loneliness led to revelry and camaraderie: falling down stairs and sleeping in a heap. I’d wake up like a groggy beast of burden resigned to drop my shoulder into the harness one more day. Now I watch Faraday shock toads with magnets drawn over copper wires on the page, and I wonder endlessly how a rim of infinite parallelepipeds […]