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COSMOLOGY 101

Poetry by Emanuel Garcia

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We claim that an infinity
Can come from one

That nothing is more virtual
Than empty space

That Nature’s laws
Leave wiggle room and

That the vast majority
Of the perceptible is
Dark

Perhaps
In knowing more
About what brought us
Here
And what will bring us
Hence

The further fact that
Neither mass nor energy
Can ever be destroyed

Would help explain
The fate of hope within
This gravity of endless blood

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