WELL: it's been a few years since I've done close-reading of poetry, but here goes:
-electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange
Which is just saying, really, that science has a tendency to take its discoveries and turn them from small, mundane observations about how things work into grandiose epistemological and metaphysical statements (though always subconsciously), and those of us who don't subscribe with that level of fanaticism about science and technology are a little befuddled/amused whenever that happens. Hence the line before: "your victum... plays with the bigness of his littleness."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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