Poem: Two Roads Diverged in a Wood

Two Roads Diverged in a Wood

Clearly, Robert Frost had not been schooled
in the mechanics of quantum mechanics
when he wrote "The Road Not Taken."
If he had, he might have instead written
"The Electron Takes Both Roads" or
"The Road that Vanishes if We Watch" or
"Poetic License Allows Me to Characterize
The Road Not Taken, though Such Phenomena
Only Occur at a Macroscopic Level."

Thank God Schrodinger did not stroll past
Frost's New Hampshire farm; Thank God
Frost did not down a few pints with Planck.
Imagine, we might not have this ridiculous
American poem - we might not have anything to say
at graduation speeches or best man toasts
if Frost had attempted a marriage
between poetry and physics, the cutest couple
I may or may not have ever known.