SIMULTANEITY

			The atoms of Atlantis
			dodge on & off
			a million times a second.
			We dodge
			at a million minus one.
			Egypt's pyramids grow
			block on block
			at a million minus five,
			and at a million minus ten,
			colonists inflate
			the first permanent settlement
			under the polar caps of Mars.

			The UFO slows its vibrations
			like a pitchpipe going down a scale.
			At a million minus one
			it is a bubble of light
			over Washington.
			It drops a capsule
			that dodges on & off
			a million times a second.
			Its message says:
			"We are ALL
			HERE
			NOW."

			Only those who move
			one oscillation faster
			ever hear it.
			They think it is a voice
			calling in a dream. 

				- William John Watkins



More poems by William John Watkins
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