be defined as
that feeling
you get
when you push
against the boundaries,
when you tug
at the contours
of your own
nothingness.
*
Energy is simply
the repetitive
performance
of the one trick
you know how to pull
off so well
that nobody
realizes
you don't believe it
at all.
*
To square the speed
of light, you'd need
a galaxy
of grackles—
each darting
while exchanging mock-
insults with the others—
so quick,
agitated, and turbulently
smothered
that there's no chance
of knowing
how the whole thing
got started.
