by Kevin T McEneaney
Let us observe the weight of a hammer.
If you put the quarks and electrons on
a scale, the combined weight of all of them
would be as light as a piece of paper.
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So, if you hit your thumb with a hammer,
why do you wince with a degree of pain?
The mass of the hammer is in its bonds—
those small electrons are in a tight line,
all twenty-six lined up like an arrow,
which is what determines the hammer’s mass.
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Bonding creates mass, weight, and perception,
just as the bonding of sperm and ovum
creates the life of a newborn baby.
Life is poetry encased in bonding!
