What Is a Half-life?

What Is a Half-life?

by james bezerra

I’m really asking.

So few things matter

in life,

but life.

Why measure it in halves?

If all my uranium isotopes

really are degrading

so slowly that

I haven’t the

size in my skull to

comprehend the expanse

of their lives

in full,

then are they,

to me,

really dying at all?

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