nuclear physicists
seem dubious
about speaking
in those tongues
which some call
absolutes;
they know that
relationships
have always
been a gamble,
and that gamblers
who always remain
undaunted,
however useful
in the short term,
are a danger to the system
and need to be
monitored.
As such,
they'll say things like:
even the physical
properties of matter
may constitute only
one half
of a conversation
which we were neither
meant for, nor built
to overhear—
not between the ghost
and his compliant
machine, mind you,
but the one
who's still haunted
by the perverse
indifference
of the iconoclast heir
whom he wastes
his nights haunting.
