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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4203 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Science Lesson Silvia Brandon-Perez The square root of fifteen is five, he said; the answer to the endless question of the here and now IS then. Democritus contrived a theory that space, the Void, had equal dibs with Being, or reality, the Void a vacuum filled with particles eternal and invisible. From there to bombs and mushroom clouds winging their way across the unreality of time and space to death. When younger and myopic I saw lights as fusion of their shapes and colors: beauty. With glasses fuzzy beauty was resolved to dirty streets, with crime and garbage everywhere. Ultimate good, which D. described as cheerfulness, a state in which the soul lives tranquilly, eludes me. The naked city, she that never sleeps, is now a place of terror for the ones who do not fit the picture. The volume of a cone is but one third that of a cylinder (same base and equal height). Poetry's atoms have been split by hatred. The total mass of the reactants in a chemical reaction equal total mass of products. Darkness abounds. The total mass of fear and prejudice and anxious nightmares equals bullets nightsticks hate and death. Dalton and Lavoisier redeemed. God weeps. |
