42

• Artist: FuzzyIron
• Description: ‘42’ is “The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.” (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). The real issue here is: What is the question? Perhaps it’s impossible to know both the answer and the question. I used this title as a hint for what my poem is about. My poem is about the big questions we ask about life/universe.
• Date: 06/26/2016
• Tags: iambicpentameter life universe question

Ideas rising; bubbles from the mind,

Perhaps decisions live illusory

It may be true virtue is undefined,

To seek a meaning would be foolery

We occupy a harmless enigma;

Made dreadful through mad interpretation.

Underlying truth, Abracadabra!

Our meaning came to pass as creation.

We stand programmed by nature ere nurture.

Gray matter rests as whole components fail,

A silly number miss the departure,

Unless ourselves decay to no avail.

A blank canvas awaiting one painter,

The inner workings pondered forever.