They teach paradoxes
But only in the theoretical
Look, they say
A feline in a box
An experiment of slits
It doesn’t add up
Let us think on
What this teaches us
But they've forgotten
All the flesh and nerve endings
They've forgotten
That where a mind finds whimsy
A belly can ache
Proofs and
Logic gates bridle
A wild, ischemic heart
Flailing to resuscitate
Amidst barbed wire
Of your freshly sharpened words
And still
I cannot solve
Cannot reconcile
Why all at once I hold
The anger of a stampede
And the wilt of an empty room