Irrational, Predictable

the young father lives in

a negative universe

a place so polluted with

emotional fluoride that

teeth rot just tasting it

the xenon counterbalance

has been sucked dry by ions

in multiples of two

the suicide rate is so high

that all natural gas and propane

stoves have been replaced by

electric models,

which is ironic considering

the universe is rife with

electronegativity and so

people take willing nosedives

into swimming pools of concrete,

molten or not

but not every diamond-tipped

circular saw blade will cut the

forty-five miters properly,

particulates gum up the works

as the not-so-verbally talented might say

mental shims are needed to balance

the whole structure so the biscuits take

and the bolts tighten easily and correctly

so maybe the young father's version of

universal events needs to be reshaped,

reformed in a blaze of Anabaptist glory

but the likelihood of that happening is

the same as Pascal being right about

divinity of any kind, any at all

but that didn't stop the walkie-talkie

god-wired from poisoning existence

in the Renaissance

yet that's humankind after all and

the young father can still isolate those

constants and variables in the

messy system of equations of life

so his view of life may not be as

dysfunctional as he thinks it is

it's like the decimal re presentation

of pi after all, irrational as all get out

but it's consistent after all

consistently irrational and

consistently predictable

Author's Note

Reviews

[joshua deathdealer]

I know I shouldn't have laughed but when you said that electric appliances had replaced gas because of suicides all time high. It put the most ridicules image of houses exploding around the neighborhood because of distraught teens. But I quickly got serious and reread and yes it is all around us. This electronegativity. Awesome poem Kenneth!

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks, josh. Glad to see you again.

[John Anderson]

nicely penned with a powerful delivery of your words. Well done!

[Kenneth The Poet]

thank you, john!

[Pryde Foltz]

consistently irrational and
consistently predictable

Grasping this gets you half way there … phenomenal write, Kenneth. Genius one might say:)

[Kenneth The Poet]

thank you, pryde!

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Yep todays technology is great in some aspects but the world has also lost that personal touch leaving our hearts far apart. Sometimes I wish we could go back to a simpler time.

[Kenneth The Poet]

thank you, dale.

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

You're welcome sir.