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Two: A Poem About Scientists


I have had insufficient time to write a full-blown blog this week-end, so I will leave you with a poem. It seems appropriate, since this is a science poem on a science blog, and it ties in with next weeks blog topic, which is the interconnectivity of two particular branches of sciences. I hope you enjoy this.


Two

Two years.
Two groups.
One constant.
The only person
in either group
who isn’t going
for the “American Dream”,
whose primary goal
does not involve
retiring wealthy.
The only one
who never did
understand this
whole war
between them,
at any level
much less this one,
seeing as how this peace
will save humanity
time and time and time again.

Two years.
Two fields of science .
The only constant
is the only poet.
The only one of
either group that
realizes that science, too,
is a kind of art.
After all,
Mother Nature is
the most intrinsic,
the fullest,
and best poet
in the multi-verse...
isn’t she?
And she is goofier
than any poet or artist
or scientist could ever be.

Two years.
Two clicks.
Two enemies of war
with the same exact goal
using essentially the same
poetry of reality as their
means to their common end.
The only constant
is the only person
who realizes how
silly this war
between them is.
The only one who
realizes the strength
of their similarities
and the fallibility
of the differences.

Two years.
Two methods of thought
Two sub-divisions
of the same existence.
The only constant
realizing that there is
only difference in technique
and money spent
and nothing else.
That the math is the same,
the laws are the same,
the reality is the same,
the poetry is the same.

Two years with two groups,
and me, the only constant
between the two.
One group has dubbed me
the God of Chemistry,
and the other has dubbed me
the God of Physics.
And neither has realized
that I am a part of the other
until after these labels
have been thrust upon me.
And hopefully,
with this bomb of knowledge
dropped on them,
a small wedge has been placed
in the tension between
these two fields of thought.
And hopefully soon,
these tensions will cease.
And hopefully soon
this war between
the Chemist and the Physicist
will end, finally and forever.

Because then and only then
will we have a chance
to save ourselves
from ourselves.
With full resources
and full abilities
on the same side,
and not fighting
against each other.


My prompt for you all today is to poeticize a concept which you want to spread in a manner which would make people listen instead of roll their eyes. Then go to a poetry reading and recite it in a fashion that would be interesting to them. And take in to consideration that interesting to them is very likely not the same as interesting to you.

Take that as you will.
-K. “Alan” Eister Δαβ

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