Science  Write  Now

Begin a dialogue with every

clear day occurrence

that is less likely than rain

It’s what they did in Close Encounters

see what it says back

                                                                        this cocky slim chance

to begin, we asked five hundred sixteen

less fortunate looking aliens and only eighty knew they were ugly

we tried again and left out “only”

this is the chorus:

 

In an empty shoebox under this bed, more than two billion things occur in 1/3 of a second.

The smallest unit of time any human can register is about 1/3 of a second.

Which is the reason we don’t see our own eyelids blinking.

No matter how swiftly we pull that lid off.

The shoebox looks empty.

The shoebox looks empty.

And the rest of the time, we’re all asleep.

We can’t guess what happens while we’re looking right at it.

At least 10% of our waking lives are spent with our eyes involuntarily closed.

We blink 16,200 times every day. Don’t need to blink so much, we just do. That’s 1.5 hours.

We blink 16,200 times every day. Don’t need to blink so much, we just do. That’s 1.5 hours.

At least 10% of our waking lives are spent with our eyes involuntarily closed.

We can’t guess what happens while we’re looking right at it.

And the rest of the time, we’re asleep.

The Shoebox looks empty.

The Shoebox looks empty.

No matter how fast we pull that lid off.

Which is the reason we don’t see our own eyelids blinking.

The smallest unit of time any human can register is about 1/3 of a second.

In an empty shoebox under this bed, more than two billion things occur in 1/3 of a second.

 

it can go like that for days

 

Begin with the many splendorous

people who don’t care at all

and thank them sincerely with gifts

then move on

poking sneaky eyeholes

in paintings like Starlight Worms Head

for sale to the paranoid

on behalf of the dead

and bargain for fun but realize

licentia is a liberty assumed and therefore an unrestrained liberty

yes, people pay for knockoff liberty all the time

that doesn’t make it valuable

 

most of the liberty you see nowadays is made in China