Rocket Science
Sept 17 2021
It ain't rocket science
we glibly say
as we've done for half a century.
But haven't we moved on
to a different order of complexity?
From blasting-off
expanding gases
and parabolic paths
to more subtle kinds of science?
To inner space, instead of outer.
The permutations
of love, hate
relationship.
The arcane equations
of the human mind,
and the hard problem of consciousness.
Even the meaning of life,
as if something so metaphysical
could be captured
in numbers and graphs.
Yet even physics
isn't hard and fast,
rockets still explode
veer off course
fizzle on the launch pad.
And even Wernher Von Braun
was far more complex
than his moonshot invention,
navigating so deftly
from Nazi to American
in a fraction of time.
Because rocketry is easy
we are not.
So wouldn't it be more accurate to say
it ain't anthropology
psychology
the arcane art of dating?
The human journey
and all its baffling billions
of complex parts.
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