Multiversal Falcon's POV
'It was a small part of the pantomime.' - Wallace Stevens.
1)
Frivolous quantum forks of alternative tattoo choices.
Realities coming up roses for Mensheviks & Betamaxes.
An infinite number of couch potatoes dial in a butt
Bildungsroman.
Inflationary bubbleverses where gammon balloons
squeeze out the sky.
2)
Differently squidwardy Lovecraftian snowflakes.
Differently squidwardy Lovecraftian pastashapes.
Venus could have been a Handsome Squidworld,
but for the shaking of the magnetospherical kaleidoscope.
Mars could have been a Handsome Squidworld,
but for Jupiter going walkabout.
3)
I coulda been taller, I coulda been a baller
- I was robbed, robbed I tell you.
But somewhere somewhen 6ft me is outthere,
multiverse-hopping, imago-shopping,
a veritable giant in the reign of Good Queen Dick,
being relieved of several gleaming guineas
by the legendary highwayman, John Palmer
astride his steed, the dread White Stocking.
(if horses can be said to be dread).
4)
Ted Kennedy did for
Lee Harvey Plath who did for
Assia Ruby who did for
Shura who died and went to Cuba
in a universe where
Dewy beat Truman
& the CIA was never founded.
Shura died & lived happily after,
marrying her father's crow-
ebon colon, the best part of him.
Shura died & ascended
up a yew tree where no Panglossian panthers
snipe.
5)
Unforeseen circumstances abound
so much that they manifest as law,
the sort not enforced
but which has been found
to explain why life is strange.
For instance,
imagine an alternative history
we thought we'd put out of our misery,
where the horror movie comes true
& the 1000-year Reich
lives up to the hype,
Yet imagine that's partly due
to the victorious Axis
later acting decisively
t'avert catastrophic
climate change?
All that is necessary for evil to triumph
is if the Butterfly Effect has good men stumped.
Yet evil finds a way
even when we save the day.
6)
Poetic as the justice of Time's Arrow
if justice means the direction of travel
is less rando, contrapasso
of a Big Crunching uni-reverse,
the Cosmos avenging
the Nakbacaust 80-fold
w/ a now subsequent Holocaust,
tho' watching the Shoah flowing backwards
would mean 6 million Lazaruses
stealing towels & bathrobes
from the Kanada Suite
at a Pet Semetery Auschwitz
before finally being reunited w/ their families
as punishment.
At the end of a day
when the sun rises in the West,
anti-entropy Adonai's
more lenient!
7)
Or a keffiyeh kaijuniverse,
where the God of the Jewniverse
is still a Dutch Uncle, teaching the apostates
who worship the Golden Calf of Godless Ziozilla
an OTT OT lesson when He moonlights as Allah
& bids the United States of Arabia
to launch Mecha- Mark 2, Medina Godzilla,
who totes KOs Tel Aviv
(Tokyo's reprieve).
8)
The missing Kate Cambridge of early 2024
resurfacing w/ a bang as the Houthi Patty Hearst,
righteous Kalashnikov in hand,
beret atop a burqua,
Clothes Horse Duchess turned
Tanya, White Lioness of Yemen.
A member of the British Royal Family
on the right side of history?
Rare as hen's teeth, such a branch.
9)
But in all the brane new worlds
in the multiversal Bulk,
or in all the multiversal pouches
of a Schwarzchild universe
(God as a 90s Image superstar artist),
wherever there's a Setra Ari-Ari,
a traditional placenta graveyard
in a bizarre-privileged Bali,
where afterbirths slosh about within
strungup coconut shells,
at least we know there'll be less selves
hideously multiversifying.
10)
Could it be as simple as when
I last looked out the window,
it was raining outside in that world
when it wasn't in this?
Could it be as simple as when
I last looked out the window,
in that world there wasn't an ambulance
outside when there was in this?
11)
All the other Infinite Multiple Choice Dimensions
(or a Sempiternal Schizophrenic Immanence Subvocally Slurring)
+ the YOU reading this poem
at the younique time & place of your choosing,
a poem written at the menique time & place of my composing
= 11.11111111111111111111111111111 recurring.