“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility… The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein (1936)

Cogito
dice clatter
against
a corner
of the universe,
rolling the bones
of a thousand
generations
one slides
into the black hole
void
a loser
next
player
to the line
boxcars
stacked as cordwood
into the pit
rotting
the snake
stares
at a half
eaten apple
hooded eyes
close
Hawking
presses keys
indicating
chuckling

First Published in Ionosphere, Vol. 1, Issue 2, July 2024