Public Life Part 3: A Thesis on Atoms

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This is only part a poem
It is other part a thesis
A part of the ceaseless babble and conclusions of my mind
I find people
Should be more like Atoms
Not the Lambert kind
The standard stuff you find when you cut the universe up

I know it sounds strange
But hear me out
Without oversimplifying an entire physics lesson
May I point your attention to the election cloud
It's the humming bustling region around an atom's center
You could imagine it a handful of sand dancing in a blender
A space so jammed full of small grains
You have to wonder at the pain in all that grit
You begin to suspect that things hit each other
Here is an electron fact
Electrons move so fast you can never tell where they are
As far as scientists are concerned
An electron can be in two or more places at once
Everywhere and nowhere and sleeping and out to lunch
I find people should be more like atoms
Circling some common thing
But emulating atomic abundance
I think we have to make less choices
Can admit to life being bustling and confusing and noisy

This is also a poem about public space
How we should inhabit places
And squabble and bicker and have bad nights
Not shy away from living room and dinner table fights
Or the chance that two or more of us just might overlap
And that is not a bad thing or against nature
In fact it is our behavior at the smallest scale
Both, and, Or
Is our most fundamental state
How then is this the world we have created?
Full of hemming and haws and limits
A world at odds with the laws pf physics
Like... what the hell are manners?
Why are we so surgical about grammar?
Following the "shrink, shrink, shrink" demanders
This is how the silverware sits
That is how a bodice fits
Here is where a good girl goes
There is where we plant the roses
It's not appropriate to talk so loud
Don't interact when the sidewalk is crowded
We live our lives like a packed box truck
Heaviest on bottom and everyone stuck in shape
Ignoring how much of the world
Is in a liquid, gas, plasma state

I am not saying we can't have boundaries
I'm saying it's silly to assume they won't be used
That grandly dictated rules will do all the work
That the clerk at the court will be able to make it make sense
That you will never personally be tasked with defense
Or mending fences
And if you are offended you will simply call the cops
Send packing the electronic people
Humming and spinning about the block
Make the movement stop
Do everything you can to avoid fiction
Try to become that quiet fiction loathed by Dr. King
A heavy, toxic, obnoxious thing
Negative Peace
A position ion
Brutally achieved by rejecting electrons
The physics on that is strong
Such a time will be brief
We cannot fully be
By rejecting people
Or parts of ourselves
We cannot create heaven by packing full the jail cells
Manners will not do the trick
You cannot hope to stick everyone's moving parts
My evidence is millennia of
Laughing, thrashing, human hearts

It's not a surprise that western culture runs cold
Does it not thrive off the preordained limits
Of the white, the male, the old
A worship of power devoid of soul
It is true there is as little as powerful as a black hole
And sad the most apt cosmic comparison
Is the thing that sucks, and swallows, and takes
And holds and holds and holds
And won't let go
The thing that crushes electrons, and snatches light
That baffles scientists and can support no life
I know there are better models for which we can aspire
Which is to say
I admire people
That are like atoms
Moving and wild and catching fire
Dancing round each other like electron spirals
Like planets
Galaxies
The rings of Saturn
Living a holy, universe practices pattern
That allows change and fullness but is hard
That forfeits black hole power but leaves us stars
This is my theory about public space
Take it up
Everyone
All at once
Be done
With "shrink, shrink, shrink" demands
Command the full sidewalk
There's enough, enough, enough to go around
We can all behave like an electron cloud
We should commit to friction, the electronic and all that
Because it is physically fine to overlap
Preferred Even
I believe in stuff that learns from its pieces
I have this truly incredible thesis
I find people
Should be more like Atoms

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