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all things come in pairs

A basic premise, be it physics, or literature.
My professor illustrated the point with arrows
one showing the force vector of the bullet,
another recoiling backwards
presumably into a shoulder.
My aunt illustrated the point
with just one photo
of a prison cell
and a handful of letters.

all things come in pairs

Positron: an antielectron composed of antimatter,
comprised with the totality
of all the opposite traits of an electron.
+1 charge
1/2 spin
mass: identical

Alternatively, I've had it described to me that a positron is nothing more than an electron that moves along the opposite time vector as the rest of us.

Crab canon: two things arranged complimentarily and backwards
similar to a palindrome.
See J.S. Bach's A Musical Offering.

all things come in pairs

And I can't help but think about myself
comprised of all the things I'm not
faltering backwards through time
seeing all things that came before
as easily as all things that lay ahead

the long walk

It is early evening and I still haven't left
the house today. From my bed,
everything looms: impossible dresser and
its flank-like shutters, the bellow
of the old furnace, a letter
I have not responded to. My mother told me
about a man who walked 2,000 miles until
his shoes wore through and each step
ate a little more of his feet. She doesn't know
why and our long distance call
ends.

Outside the window, the trees in winter
are skeletal. The pigeons prefer
the sizzle of power lines for a perch,
and I count them, my electric choir.

I put on my coat, wrap my scarf
like a noose, and take
the walk no one knows about.