Poetry: Dan Schneider

Every now and then we like to pay some attention to literature here at The Moderate Voice. Today, I would like to publish a sonnet written by Dan Schneider:

Pascal [in a box] rolled the dice one day,
then passed them to Fermat, who decided
not to play. He then palmed the pair of cubes
and started to say…. but decided no
way would be better. Newton, however,
shook with excitement, even as he shook
the dice, and rolled them half-way down the felt,
where Einstein played nothing in his brief smirk
(to Heisenberg surely some sort of scheme)
to knock von Neumann out of the saddle,
and into the game. But, damn! Then Tipler
proved them wrong, and showed Pascal had been right
to pass the dice, because Archimedes’ game
was fixed to the last breath of recorded time.

Copyright by Dan Schneider