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Poetry

Black holes

From the LabLit science verse series

Mike Berger 17 May 2009

www.lablit.com/article/504

The scribbles of a small
child captures a likeness.

The artist's
conception of a black hole
a black dot surrounded
by glowing gas;
a hard edge and
perfectly round.

We tend to forget, the event
horizon of a black hole is
a process. It's impossible
to conceive.

Space collapses
and time slows as
you approach.
The process squeezes
things into
one dimension.

It eats everything that
draws near then
it cannibalizes itself.

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