String, Donuts, Bubbles and Me

    String, Donuts, Bubbles and Me

    2008

    According to scientists
    The world’s made of string
    That buzzes and fuzzes
    Or some such strange thing

    It’s also a donut
    That curls round a hole
    With middles and riddles
    Just like a fish bowl

    And there’s no mistaking
    It’s more than 3-D
    With twenty or plenty
    Dimensions unseen

    Still others insist
    It’s really a bubble
    That’s popping and bopping
    Through the lenses of Hubble

    Or it’s just a Big Bang
    That speeds to its goal
    Of whirling and swirling
    Into a black hole

    My view is different:
    The whole galaxy
    Is milky and silky
    And spins around me!

    — Wayne Visser