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Abstraction and Our (sic.) Infinite Universe
Aren’t we a group of infinite order,
somehow unable to generate ourselves?
We are aware that our powers are insufficient
even as we watch them extend as tiny filaments towards a horizon.
Even then, we know.
Things slip like dark materials from our small hands.
You see, even one microsecond after the explosion things we already beyond us.
Yet, we subdivide that time into intervals approaching zero,
providing structure yet realizing that that structure will never provide solutions.
Even knowing, we persist.
All we create is the non-space of ideas,
though, we create them infinitely.
In our closed rooms we abstract successors,
moving far higher then anything that actually existed.
We fail to comprehend the magnitude of our clever trick.
We discovered ambrosia and ate hamburger.
We quit Eden for Chicago.
We elected for infinite space instead of love.
We didn’t fall. We
l
e
a
p
t.
But yet, we are finite magicians,
playing in ever expanding space and ever regressing time,
only to find ourselves conquerors of an empire we don’t understand.
Like the great white gods who walked into the empty city.
Like a child given too many toys.
- by Dancing Armadillo Mage |
- Poetry And Lyrics
- | Submitted on 02/16/2009 |
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- Title: Abstraction...
- Artist: Dancing Armadillo Mage
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This is poem that I was inspired to write in my abstract algebra class when we were talking about infinity. I don't like the title....
PLEASE comment. I will love your forever. - Date: 02/16/2009
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Comments (2 Comments)
- Nihill - 03/19/2009
- I really like this. It feels vaguely Bad Religion-ish to me, Modern Man or 21st Century Digital Boy, but even more descriptive and well-worded (and it's hard to beat Graffin with words, let me tell you.) A great commentary on the technological age. "We didn't fall, we leapt." is the quintessential line here, I think.
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- scitama - 02/18/2009
- Very in-depth...I like the thought process, of how I was made to think for a deeper message.
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