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Microcosm

By Richard Mather


בְּרֵאשִׁית

was the command


10 PRINT "Hello Universe"

20 GOTO 10


Unbelievable, breathless, demonic even,

how a singular point could yield space, time,

protons, neutrons, chemicals – a bunch of

ones and zeros, flashing on and off like

little bits of light.


But there it was: an actual

universum, infinite in volume,

brimming with dark energy and matter. And earth!


Circumference forty thousand kilometres;

composition iron, oxygen, silicon, magnesium;

a mean sidereal day of twenty-three hours,

fifty-six minutes and four seconds; complete

with magnetic dipole, one moon and

five co-orbital asteroids.


And at the centre of it all –

Adam – a large creature containing

multitudes.


Incredible how much energy was spent on

eyeballs and arteries and delicate nerve-endings

for an organism so prone to train wrecks and tumours;


or how time was wasted discussing the need for

volition and cognition, when every end-product was

destined to crack-breakdown-expire-decohere-liquefy-

atomise in a shallow grave six thousand kilometres out

from the core of a planet suspended in a cosmic sphere

radiating forty-six billion light years in every direction

back to the beginning of the bang.

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