This poem makes less sense than I originally intended it to
After putting the finishing touches on his time machine Dr. Brainiak decided to do the unit testing that should have occurred earlier but for lack of funding could not be done until now. Yes! Now! That moment in history when he would show how every past is Now and how every future is Now. He took a deep breath and then another and then another and then stopped. He was in the Now of pure, immoral, t = 0 alpha-omega anti-time generated by his machine proving conclusively that there couldn’t be another t.
He somehow died, they reasoned, because he couldn’t exhale, but how was he able to die being in the Now is still being debated by his colleagues. Hell should last forever. The university did need to get rid of the remains, regardless, which refused to decompose on their own, because he was no longer actively getting rejected for research grants.
He knew people would become irrational when they found him, but he could not get to t = 1 from t = 0. He could not even get to t = -1 although he tried that too. He couldn’t even unplug the machine because, assuming the machine was working properly, he wasn’t actually in the common delusion of time anymore although the video camera which was not in the Now showed how hard he couldn’t try.
It is hard being a martyr when everyone thinks you have burnt them at the stake
By Lily White Luvable
my
which
burning
boyfriend
burns
Announcing the canonization of Lily White Luvable, martyr
By Lily White Luvable
thank you
with
(Shh! They can’t see us)gratitude
(Yeah sure)justice
humanity
(Nothing like playing this record backwards)decency
every
(That’s right)ware
belatedly
finally
recognized
i (That would be me)
accept