A Schrödinger Contemplation

No cat, box, radiation, hammer

Poison, or geiger counter necessary

If you are awake, you are alive

If you are asleep, you are dead

Consider, when you are “sleeping”

Either in a fancy box, or a cardboard one

“You” are not “there” in the first place

Quite frankly, if no one is observing you

Your existence is impossible to prove

Could you prove otherwise, hmmm

Try saying I Am, while sleeping

“I am”… I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair

“I am”… I cried
“I am”… said I
And I am lost and I can’t
Even say why

“I am”… I said
“I am”… I cried
“I am”… I said

– Neil Diamond

One’s existence boils down
To a heady thought experiment
While each moment
Blends into the next
Wave after wave

“I have special glasses
To see the contradiction
In everything.”

– Angelo Devlin