Q&A on some things

Part 2 of a trilogy on nothing, something, and everything

Exposition/Inspiration

‘Things Fall Apart’ a novel by Chinua Achebe

“Something wicked this way comes” spoken by the Second Witch, Act 4, Scene 1—Macbeth, play by W. Shakespeare

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy.” (Hamlet, Act 1, play by William Shakespeare)

“Because something is happening here but you don’t know what it is do you, Mr. Jones” Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man.

Development/Themes

Some fruit doesn’t fall very far from the tree

somebody else said it long ago it was not me

some edible roots and leaves give healthy results

some injuries heal but leave lasting memories

some reality stinks from hell to high heaven

some understand wading through life’s muck

‘some guys complain some have all the luck’

Answer me this do you remember your first kiss

those moments of bliss the name of Mister or Miss

the poet more than likely means something else

other than sunlight sand sex surf and seashells

perhaps a turbulent ocean full of raw emotion

a deep stormy sea full of love dreams devotion

there’s surely something else in sonnets he tells.

Recapitulation/Coda

Somethings gone wrong with life’s unhappy song

somethings right with democracy freedom’s light

we knew it was out there shining all along

despite fear and loathing of ideological blight.

Somethings are so small we will never see them

and only resolved in a quantum theory problem

in which some things are solved then dissolved

what’s up with that? quantum theory spits it back.

“these are a few of my favorite things’ an excerpt

from a song in the musical, The Sound of Music

the sounds in a Chinese kitchen, Pong Pang Pings

not in cell phone pings or rings in people’s noses

but church bells ringing rings around the moon

wedding rings and throughout this 21st century

interest in Baroque music instruments and strings

and the changing cosmological theory of strings.

Yesterday I said some things about ‘nothing’

today it is about ‘somethings’ else again

flowing from Batbon’s Brane and Joey’s pen

trying hard not to forget a time when someone

sang, “Everything is beautiful in its own way.”

(next week Part 3, Q&A on everything)

Joey aka “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.