A Physick for Physics

Perhaps the only measure

Of infinitesimal

Better worlds of real goodness

Lies in the ability

To think such worlds could exist.

Not, that is, to imagine,

Since imagination can

Only collage what is known,

But to assert, to propose

That, although life’s as it is,

And no one knows otherwise,

There’s no absolute reason

Why there might not be a world

Without slingshots, so to speak,

A deathless situation

Free of misery. Don’t preach

As if you knew where it is

Or how to get there. Heavens

Promised to believers hurt

More than any threats of hells.

Just open that small window

In your thoughts for another

Existence other than this,

Nothing alike these physics.