A little sci-poem about entropy.

Entropy is a concept I’ve tackled before in poetry, at least since 2015, when a professor pointed this out and showed me the Peter Redgrove poem The Idea Of Entropy At Maenporth Beach. I was also introduced to Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulacrum, which years later brought me to Hyperreality.

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I could go on, but let’s get to the poem.

As usual, I have included the date this was written. This isn’t my most technically complex poem, but I think it says something meaningful.

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UNDYING

Undying
25.09.2024

As robots from my stories dredge themselves
from uncharted oceans
onto the beaches of my subconscious

I realise, that the world has always been ending
that the tide coming in on our lives
has come in before on others

and that the ideas we had of the world, washed away
were not an accurate simulation of it

the world is not towers and stairwells and parapets
the world is this beach, this endless beach
and the purpling waves that suffocate
and breathe life into it
like a heartbeat

END

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Sharing this quote also, because it’s hilarious.

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Bonus material

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The first novella in the THE STEPHANIE GLITCH is still free on Kindle Unlimited, and someone read 104 pages the other day!

This means they read it front to back.

And after I posted this tiktok video about it, not only did a five-star review roll in, someone else went through my tiktok and bought a copy.

And I now have 1003 followers there, meaning I’ve unlocked links, so I now have a direct link to my store on my tiktok.

@realphillipcarterMy bookstore link will go live on tiktok at 1000 followers. The Stephanie Glitch is one of my weirder books. Imagine if your migraines could tell you secrets about reality. now add an interdimensional traveller, an undead poet, and a sarcastic talking planet and skeletons and alien tombs and time travel and teleporting hot chocolate etc #thestephanieglitch #books #booktok

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