The Whole World Gets Wider

“He says that life is round, that we’re stuck on this wheel of living and dying; an endless circle, until someone breaks it. You walked in here, you ruptured the pattern-----bang-----the whole world gets wider.” - Lucien Carr from Kill Your Darlings (2013)

and so it seems, the scientists

witnessed in graphite sheen, dull

chalk, the perfect length

of a crucible

perfect penciled circles

circumference of the not-yet-defined, the

undefined

held by tension-smitten

strings, pulling

a mass of metal things

and so it seems, they let it

swing, baby-soft

amidst the gravity

the most centripetal idea of the

century! then the

unfulfilled wish.

perfect penciled circles, all

missed, how can it be

that when sat beside themselves, they

see? this tight circular force

wanting to set them

free.

more damning than a

eureka, crafty hands of

human nature, You

make the physics too invested

too involved

the most centrifugal idea of the

century.

and so it seems, the scientists

with their circular theories, their unexplainable

momentar-ies, a taut circle

pulling them in

flinging them out

discovered the world

longing to be freed from

itself; that

centripetal was the explainable and the

centrifugal everything

unexplained

a helpless gravitation

swung outwards, a breathtaking illusion

the disillusionment

we can’t afford

it is everything we want,

it is nothing that we need

but even the scientists couldn’t

resist (as was deemed) this

fictitious force

and so it seems, when the

disruption we long for comes

again, the circle breaks

another lover hits the universe, and

the whole world gets

wider.