Ad Nauseam Etc.

there is no remote corner

it's all just more universe

from stem to stern

balls to bones

all's just the same thing

rearranged and s**t

ad nauseam

etc.

again and again

everywhere

   making time

from nothing

. . . that's everything

Author's Note

Reviews

[R.E. Ray]

As strange as this will read to you, I thought of an ant colony at our feet. How the ugly little creatures scurry around, always busy doing something nature has programmed them to believe important, yet always one human boot fall from death and utter destruction. Perhaps we're the same, only unable to see reality from the same perspective... busy, arranging, rearranging, etc., though so irrelevant in the universe. A thought-provoking piece, maybe too early for my tired brain.

[vainvessel]

I'm not religious but this reminded me of a passage from the bible:
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

Also of Nietzsche's comments on the theory of eternal recurrence of the universe.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

"from nothing that's everything"
ah yes...the world is round...no corners, just continuation of whatever it is, wherever it is...and why ever it is...

j.

[Davidgeo]

Well said. I couldn't agree more. Thanks for reviewing Jacob.

[Hebe]

Expressed perfectly ..... empty the mind and watch your perspective change, we are the universe...

[Davidgeo]

The universe is in everyone. It's kind of nice to have something in common with everything, it really does provide a feeling of connectivity if thought about properly.

[Hebe]

It is amazing.

[h d e rushin]

perhaps we just don't unwind enough and let ourselves wallow in the mud of insignificance . "My loves more ponderous than my tongue", Cordelia says unable to put her love for King Lear into words. So he tells her that from nothing is made nothing. On this earth there really is no good place to hide anymore. That's why poetry becomes important, for no other reason, than to drag something eternal to our own damnation.
I get it (this poem) I mean, I understand it from the point being of how hard and lonely the corners of everywhere can become. And how absolutely disastrous every unconnected thing can appear.....great poem./ dana

[Davidgeo]

I like your interpretation. It fits the words I think.

But it's wrong.

That poem pretty much has nothing to do with people or society and everything to do with physics and chemistry.

[h d e rushin]

i can understand the physics part, yet not the chemistry part. great poem though

[Davidgeo]

Physics and chemistry are more interrelated than you'd think. Think of chemistry as a physical manifestation of certain laws of physics.

Eh, that doesn't matter anyway. How ever you interpret it, as long as it speaks to you then I am happy.

[Delmar Cooper]

Okay lotsa stuff out there, got it. And your point is?

[Davidgeo]

What's the point? So I guess you don't "got it" then do ya?

The point is whatever you want it to be.

[R J Askew]

Too true. It's great when we are know-nothings aged about 8. But then we sink into the pit of knowledge and pfff - no more magic.

[Davidgeo]

You see knowledge as a "pit"? I certainly do not agree.

There is plenty of magic in knowledge and science.... just because it's not supernatural and unexplainable doesn't make it any less amazing. Knowledge is not a "pit", it is the means by which we have risen to the top of the food chain as a species despite our relatively frail physical bodies. Look closer, the knowledge of the world we live is what makes humans a "magical" species.

[R J Askew]

Indeed, then nor is it just 's**t ad nauseam'.

[Davidgeo]

As far as the specificity of this poem's thesis you aren't really grasping it. This is about physics and chemistry... how everything's just a bunch of the same fundamental thing combined in different ways to form compounds and elements according to the physical laws of the universe as we know it. My initial response to your review was only addressing your opinion on knowledge, it didn't really have that much to do with the poem. I felt I had to explain that to you given your last response.

[R J Askew]

Well, your verse was interesting as it is one way of looking at things and it made me think. And I did bother to review it and another of yours, unlike the other 5,763 sitting in my review pit.

[R J Askew]

And is it essential that a review should fixate on the subject being reviewed? How the art makes us feel is all part of the great joy of all this.

[R J Askew]

And one more point 'as we know it' - exactly. Think of what we don't know, the magic, the wonder - ach, the child in me is jumping around in glee again!

[Davidgeo]

I'm just commenting on what you say. You tried to use a line from my poem to make a point in a way that didn't make sense given what the poem actually means. You can interpret the poem as you read it any way you want, but if you are going to use it in rebuttal I think it's important you understand what I was actually saying with the poem.

[R J Askew]

Thank you for explaining.

[Davidgeo]

Thank you for reading. No interpretation is inherently wrong. I kinda liked yours even if it wasn't what I intended to express. Your take is actually way darker than I had in mind.

[H L Rose]

I like the last five lines the most, and think it’s written well! (despite I don’t agree, but what can you do?)

[Davidgeo]

You don't agree with elementary particle theory? That's weird.

[H L Rose]

“Again and again everywhere Making time from nothing ...that’s everything”. Sounds like your referring to the uselessness of everything.

Unfortunately, I read your poem and wrote this comment while being annoyed at someone for saying stuff like “everything means nothing”. So I can tell I was just a bit short with my temper at the time, and was probably seeing this theme everywhere.

To be honest, I didn’t think about it that much like I should have. Not that I don’t stand by my review if you were referring to everything being meaningless. I just usually wouldn’t say so, so bluntly like I did.

[Davidgeo]

Everything comes from nothing; I was really referring to the usefulness of everything. How every large thing is comprised of the same smaller parts merely arranged in a different order under different circumstances.

[H L Rose]

I really do like your explanation of the usefulness of everything as a piece of the whole, and looking at this piece from that perspective is definitely insightful, but it’s the “comes from nothing” that I disagree about. This idea often assumes that there must have been a time where there was nothing. This position often assumes that time is everything, and without time, before a beginning, there is nothing. This is the part I disagree with.

[Cherrie Palmer]

That's funny about the ants. This made me think the saying about ..the tree falling in the forest...
discovery has a pace all it's own, and the Universe, is waiting for us to catch up.