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