====== The Craven ======


Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered quantum theory\\ 
After many a YouTube video I felt I couldn’t take one more.\\ 
While I sat there with mind numbing, suddenly there came a drumming\\ 
As if something gently rattling, clattering on my bedroom floor\\ 
‘‘Tis some quantum object, I muttered, smashing on my bedroom floor\\ 
Only this and nothing more

Ah distinctly I remember, musings YouTube failed to hinder\\ 
And each moment my mind renders, takes its toll upon my soul\\ 
Drearily I thought of morrow, desperate to stop the sorrow\\ 
From my childhood to the present, confidence I had no more\\ 
For a life of mediocrity, finally in retirement mode\\ 
Melancholy for evermore

As each mellow sad uncertain rattle of the din bespoken\\ 
thrilled me filled me with fantastic wonder never felt before\\ 
So that now to still the beating of my heart i stood up, repeating\\ 
“T’is some quantum particle clanging on my bedroom floor.\\ 
Some small particle banging, clanging on my bedroom floor.”\\ 
This it is and nothing more 

Presently my soul grew stronger hesitating then no longer\\ 
Bending down I searched the floor for quantum evidence to score \\ 
But the fact is I was lagging and so faintly it was rapping\\ 
And so suddenly it rattled, clattered on my bedroom floor \\ 
I thought per chance I’d only dreamt it but there plain the evidence bore. \\ 
My tv remote lay on the floor

Much I marveled my connection of events in retrospection\\ 
Quantum theory has no meaning no relevancy bore\\ 
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being \\ 
Ever yet was blessed with hearing quantum object hit the floor\\ 
Electrons, photons, atoms, ions, waves or other quanta galore\\ 
But just a remote and nothing more.

Randy Robinson