Star Stuff

This is a true story. That is to say, I did watch a programme about the Hubble telescope, made notes, and lost them. It`s not true in the sense that many Creative Writing students say things they`ve written are true. This is not an attempt at recreating any real event. O poo, let`s not go to that place ... just read the poem.

Black Hole Poem Gone Wrong

I was going to change my name to Stella Explosion
and undergo intense spaghettification -
to disappear over my own event horizon
after suffering grave extremes of gravitation

I would have performed this violent transformation
in front of an audience of several million
via video via You Tube for their edification
for posterity too if deemed useful at all for further scientific investigation

but the scrap of A5 paper I`d scrawled my notes on
after watching BBC4 in association
with the Open University – the kind of programme
I ruin dinner for such is my admiration

has either been a) consumed by rodent infestation
or b) disappeared into another dimension