From A to Z
it's clear enough:
the things you see
are made of Stuff.
Mount Everest
is made of stone,
your skeleton
is bits of bone,
a sidewalk painting's
only chalk,
a conversation?
mostly talk,
my "diamond" ring
is really glass --
a Counted noun
is made of Mass.
But whether it's
in rocks or rings,
that stuff is made
of many Things:
the Law's a bunch
of vexing rules,
your milk is full
of molecules,
Nature is
the bees and birds,
my poetry
is simply words --
in lumps or clumps,
in grams or pounds,
a Mass consists
of Countless nouns.
Which makes the question
fairly tough:
are we but Things,
or is we Stuff?
The curious
solution lies
at ultra-
microscopic size,
where teeny tiny
Things behave
as though they were
a kind of wave --
yet waves of Stuff
are Thing-ish too
(depending on
your point of view).
And that's the thought
I came to share:
duality
is everywhere.
From Z to A
and back to Z,
Stuff and Things
is all there be.