Author: waltersboxx

My self was born XVII: XLII, Dies Lunae, XI.V.MCMLXIV at Latitude: 33-17'40'' N Longitude: 083-57'58'' W: Jackson is in Butts County, Georgia at an elevation of 705 feet. Interests include reading/writing, currently working on hodgepodge book: poetry, essays, other. Retired, Air Force. Divorced. Ephemeris heavily populated by Taurus: Sol, Luna, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter--my two daughters say--I like old things; classics, I would counter. Interests: formatting documents/tables, classical music *a pattern forms*, Shakespeare, Joyce, Jung: maybe I was born old. Sadly, I have not published anything—more critic than creator, so far. However, English major still tantalized by math.

Principia Mathematica [Incompletum]

2SetTheory

Using formal logic of groups
360 pages prove
That 1 + 1 = 2,
But any theory contains loops .
So, to keep from jumping through hoops

Put incompleteness in a box :
A set containing paradox ;
Unlike Pandora, keep it locked !
Maintain our collective senses,
And just relax in consensus .

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Forever Rewards

TrinityArt
Boxx version :   Holy Trinity .   [ 1620 ] .   Hendrick van Balen the Elder .
Belief in belief
Guarantees truth
( Even diametrically
Opposed assertions ),
Negating refutation
By subject experts
[ Nudge, nudge ;  wink, wink ]
As fake reporting
Of reality ;
Unfulfilled maybe,
But soon to be realized
After 2000 years
In the apocalyptic
Waiting room .

Millions of bodies
Rise from shattered
Graves, dirt sprinkling into
The eyes of the naysayers,
As a cosmic loudspeaker
Proclaims the winning
Lottery ticket numbers .

Congratulations .
Your steadfast,
Single–minded, cultic
Dogma is, indeed,
The correct one out
Of the thousands
In the competition .

Winning ticket holders
Please take the escalator
↑UP to receive your
Forever rewards .

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Levels of Nothingness

No objects

[ Whozits and whatzits galore ;
And no, you can’t have more—
But you can have less ] .

No air

[ N2, O2, Ar, CO2, Ne, He, CH4, Kr,
And varying levels of wetness, von
Guericke’s vacuum ] .

No matter

[ Condensates :   fermionic and Bose–
Einstein ;  solids, liquids, gases
And quark–gluon plasmas ] .

No particles

[ In six Baskin–Robins, six monochromes,
And one god ;  quantum excitation of
Fields predicted by mathematics,
Irreducible and exhibiting Poincaré
Symmetries—quantized waves in the
Qubit ocean ] .

No radiation

[ Gravity Ripples ’n the Swerving
Micetaps ;  infrasoundultra, seismic ;
Particular alpha (α), beta (ß), proton &
Neutron cosmicomics; electromagnetic :
Radio, micro, infrared, Mr. Roy G . Biv,
Ultraviolet, X, and gamma (γ) ] .

No fields

[ Classical & quantum into the cauldron :
Scalars, vectors, tensors, and spinors ;
A falling apple, the flux of Gauss,
Wrap in Reynold’s to Stoke the flow ;
And to be fair—
Blow in a drag of D’Alembert ;
Covariance of Lorentz to bundle
The bubbles, and to tame the strange,
A little pinch of Lagrange ] .

No force carriers

[ Weak and last, W & Z of intermediate
Vector, heavier than iron ;  jumbo pack of
Crayons, gluons gathering quarks in
Paren ;  photons, 8.3 minutes from the
Sun, a tensor product for Fock state ;  and
Generally relativistic geodesic falling ] .

No vacuum

[ Cosmological constants, spacetime
Curvature, virtual particles flitting into
And out of existence, foundation of
Something, angular jittering pendulum
Space points ] .

No spacetime

[ Minkowski manifolds Euclidean or
Pseudo–Riemannian, all relativistic
Cartesian points: x, y, z, and t ;
Dimensions bidirectional and
Unidirectional, all gravitomagnetically
Warped inertial frames ] .

No nonphysical
entities

[ Emergent minds circuitously thinking
About thinking, philosophies outside
Spacetime :   souls, spirits, ghosts, gods,
Demons ;  other myths, lore, or legends ;
Abstracta :   mathematics, logic, sets,
Universals ] .

No possibilities

[ Nonactual things from possible worlds
popping in unexpectedly, Chaos ( always
a priori ), modes within or without reality ] .

. . . . . . . ?

No,

[ None of that either ].

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Alvin at the Bottom of the Sea

Alvin

Inky smoke swirls from the Beebe Hydrothermal
Vent Field explored by Alvin of Woods Hole .
Submersible and crew study the flue,
Ranges of ridges rising from tectonics askew .
Cold water creeps through the seafloor cracks,
And minerals flow when the magma interacts .
Under the crushing weight of watery miles
Crustaceans scuttle sideways, tube–worms smile .
Capsule of titanium and syntactic foam
Allow the–little–sub–that–could to roam
And to study with spotlights and robotic limbs
Shipwrecks, geology and creatures that swim .
The latest upgrade can comb ninety–nine percent
Of the basin connecting the continents .

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A Hush

WinterInterrupted

The interlaced crystal glaze
Instills wistful bliss :
A hush ;
Until,
The unsullied vapor dust
Tapers to slush
Muddied,
Studded with stuff—
A wonderland interrupted .

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AutoTune : :

AutoTune

Arithmetic algorithm :
An active and complicated
Engagement with a machine
Prograaaaaaam .

Hildebrand, on demand—
A math witch twitching the pitch .
The duration of autocorrelation
Lies not in gimmickry,
But understatement .

Believe as you will,
But don’t blame T–Pain .

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orange

Ogre
Walter Crane | “ Puss in Boots Before the Ogre ”

O

Range of the orange ogre
That gores the gears under Ra ;
I groan in anger for this era
As this agéd onager gnars
His ego rag into ears gone on .
O, my organs nag in my rage ;
Rage in this agon against an orang .

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