A Rock Solid Poem Poem by Alexandre Nodopaka

The age of any rock lifted off the surface of the earth is approximately 4.5 billion
years old. I position it carefully on a iron anvil making sure I wedge some earthquake
tack around to steady it. I put on my clear safety glasses, lift my 5 pound sledgehammer
and whack the rock.

I hope no billion year old flints flies my way as I don't want to be blinded in a
millisecond. Especially not after that rock has laid peacefully for such eons of time. The
rock pulverizes into smithereens. I analyze the leftovers and realize that time has not
changed that rock. It hasn't evolved one iota as far as I can tell. Super slow metabolism!

Amazing that rock stood still for such a long time period. Next time you pick up a pebble
think that it takes a millisecond to destroy 4.5 billions years. Don't reflect much on
yourself because on such time scale humans have been around only the last 3 seconds and
that's the poetry of it and what one writes is relevant only when pitted against timeless metaphors.

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