Lightly

Don’t make waves
is good advice
from a leaky boat.

One light year is the distance
one ray of light can travel in one year and
thirty
light years away from earth
in our infinitely offended universe
of waiting
an electronic cloud announces our presence
finally
to the unimpressable stars.

This is straight from a Scientific American
on the planet earth
our human signature upon the universe
is an electronic cloud
of expanding 30-year-old television programs
like Howdy Doody Arthur Godfrey
Uncle Miltie and Hulahoops
quiz shows and wrestling midgets
baseball
the McCarthy hearings and Captain Kangaroo.

Now I don’t know what
a conscious universe might be
but it is interesting to wonder
what will wave back
to all that.