My open mic was cancelled so I'll leave this here, it's apparently a previously unpublished poem from the Caltech archives by Feynman on wine. (Which seemed we

My open mic was cancelled so I'll leave this here, it's apparently a previously unpublished poem from the Caltech archives by Feynman on wine. (Which seemed weird since all the people I know who did "nuclear stuff" stuck to beer or hard liquor when getting drunk enough to attempt poetry -- you can't do it all, pick a lane.) I will go back and edit if the formatting is messed up, and if anyone wants the .ODT I made reproducing his strikethroughs, capitalizations, and underlines, email DJBRUTAL@PROTON.ME (You can have the original PDF scan too, if you desire.) Feynam’s Wine Poem Box 39, Folder 9 [page 1] A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We shall never know in what sense *he* meant it for poets do not write to be understood, but it *is* true that if you look at a glass of wine closely enough you will see the entire universe. There, are the things of physics the twisting liquid, the reflection in the glass and our imagination adds the atoms. It evaporates depending on the wind and weather. The glass is a distillation of the earth’s rocks. And in its composition, is as we has seen, the secret of the universe’s age - and a story of the evolution of the star. What strange array of chemicals *are* in the wine. How did *they* come to be? There are the ferments, enzymes, the substantial and the products and there in the wine was found [page 2] the great question: “all life is fermentation” Now you can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Pasteur the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it. And if our small minds, for some convenience divides this glass of wine, this universe into parts – to purpose, biology, geology, astronomy psychology and all Remember nature doesn’t know it so we should put it back together and not forget, at last, what it is in for. let it give one final pleasure more drink it up and forget about it all. Edit 1: Ok no bold, underline, or strikethrough? Womp womp Edit 2: Ok... removed soon forget it prior to "put it back together" and "go to sleep" prior to "forget about it all" -- both were struck out in the original.