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Reflections on Cosmology While Drivingan Icy Road by Gerald Jennings
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C. 2004
Gerald A. Jennings
Reflections on Cosmology While Driving an Icy Road
According to the physicists who deal in such arcana
--Quantum physics and string theory and such--
Duplicates of me beyond number
Exist in an infinite number of unseen, parallel universes
Experiencing an infinite number of variations
Of my reality;
Some, like me, are driving this dark, drifted road;
Others have sanely elected to stay home, some are sleeping,
Eating, or petting the dog,
Trimming their nails, or making love,
Some younger, some older, some never born at all,
Or waiting, random atoms, yet to be born.
There must be one of those myriad selves
Looking at the approaching headlights.
Not suspecting that in seconds
The oncoming semi will skid on the ice into his path.
This indifferent multiverse leaves me helpless, naked,
Resourceless in this matter, other than to hope
That rough, meaningless reality
Is not mine.
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