All Comments on 'With Science I Know'

A wonderful piece! I enjoyed it! Thank you for posting it!

Rather cheered me up this morning - so thank you. S.O.

This one really seems to want to be a villanelle, with the repetitions of the rhymes. I can even start it for you:

I don't know why the universe spins,

The laws of science you can't disavow.

There aren't any angels dancing on pins.

& etc. (the much more complicated part, of course). I think it could be an excellent villanelle, actually. You have some awfully good lines in it. Your whole second stanza is perfect for a villanelle:

I can make robots that play violins,

grow vast timberlands from twigs on a bough,

though I don't know why the universe spins.

I really love these lines:

so why would I make up devils or jinns,

why kill the buddha or follow the tao?

My one significant objection is here:

I can take cells from the ear of a sow // to make rayon purses or to clone twins.

with the word "rayon," which is an artificial fiber--not "from the ear of a sow" (unless I missed something in the Wikipedia page). Maybe "stem cell purses"?

I dunno.

But, as always, I find your poems interesting, informative, and entertaining. Thanks.

Edit: change line 12 to read:

"to make pigskin purses or to clone twins."

However, I think I'll stay with the terza rima instead the suggested villanelle.