Entanglement

The physicist scratches his head
at the separate items connected instead
but the long and the short and the quick and the dead
is that history suddenly matters.

Some particles carry no weight
but may stay entangled, determining fate
for the quick and the dead and the early and late -
so the universe suddenly shatters.

To a naked observer some distance away
the particles haven’t yet parted.
Objectively, therefore, the particles stay
in the singular place where they started.