Zip Zap!

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Electricity! Kapow!
Teslas and Edisons all having a barney
over which voltage reigns supreme.

Direct current? Edison you rube, you fool!
America is huge and averse to costs!
Alternating was always going to
be the one to win through money alone,
but an invisible force of energy
that reverses itself up and down and back and forth
and is SAFE?

I am telling you this bolty jumpscare of
power is the coolest. Not as cool as space,
but right up there!

I am using a collection of sand in different formats
and some voltage to write out weirdy words!

If that is not cool,
if nature and the natural world doing odd things
is not cool, then consider magnetism.
Consider gravity. Consider time!

These are forms and constructs that affect
you and me every second of the day and yet
transparently inconspicuous.
Only visible to the mind’s eye
these abstract explanations of life’s foundations
are vital and neat to learn about.

The world is a fraught, frantic, fantastic
kind of spheroid and my scratching of the surface
is never enough.