AA

 

It’s nothing new you

learned it ins school

thermodynamics

second rule

with no questions asked and

the universe as proof: such

concentration is

born to be used

 

opposites attract and

the circuit’s complete and

you’re all turned on

from the light

and the heat

now the battery is the music

and the music’s

the beat

as long as they’re

dancing

the crowd is at

peace

 

now energy’s neither

created

nor lost but

nobody

said it doesn’t

cost

there really is no

solo act

the only option for potential

is contact

 

it’s hard to kick against the goads

if a battery can’t carry the load -

the law of supply and

demand

itself – there’s another

one waiting on the shelf

 

now we all live off that

transition so

before you start your grand

inquisition

learn the lesson of

transformation

grasp the truth

of equilibrium

 

somewhere a

battery

on a garbage heap

in a kind of

faithful

quantum leap

makes the final change of

state

gives its warmth to

empty space

 

another dishonourable discharge

for the universe

at large

stretched out between

a bed-spring and a drum

maranatha

our lord

come

 

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Dedicated to Thor Henning Issachsen, at the time, organist and Cantor in Holmlia Church in Oslo, Norway.

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