{"id":91,"date":"1985-03-07T08:57:39","date_gmt":"1985-03-07T16:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:16:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:16:23","slug":"enthalpy-and-entropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/03\/07\/enthalpy-and-entropy\/","title":{"rendered":"Enthalpy and Entropy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With you the Hedonists<br \/>\nAnd the beliefs<br \/>\nAre not really as it seems:<br \/>\nThe everlasting present in<br \/>\nThat abode of time;<br \/>\nIndulgence in that time:<br \/>\nThe present pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Their universe is one<br \/>\nLacking form or purpose.<br \/>\nMaximum entropy;<br \/>\nRandon disorder.<br \/>\nTheir world tends towards<br \/>\nMaximum entropy;<br \/>\nRandom disorder.<\/p>\n<p>So difficult as it is<br \/>\nTo believe in:<br \/>\nMaximum entropy;<br \/>\nMinimum enthalpy.<br \/>\nAnd they believe!<br \/>\nThey believe in &#8211;<br \/>\nThey believe that<br \/>\nMaximum entropy<br \/>\nAlone can explain<br \/>\nTheir universe.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the meek little<br \/>\nBeaurocrat,<br \/>\nIn his most petty assignment,<br \/>\nAttempts to reverse the<br \/>\nLack of order of<br \/>\nHis own world<br \/>\nWith some form of<br \/>\nMenial organization.<br \/>\nDoes he suppose<br \/>\nThe Deity less capable?<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe<br \/>\nWith the Hedonists<br \/>\nIn maximum entropy?<br \/>\nRandom disorder?<br \/>\nA world of<br \/>\nMaximum entropy?<br \/>\nRandom disorder?<\/p>\n<p>The mind of the PhD<br \/>\nHas become a mindless machine.<br \/>\nThey see their world<br \/>\nWithout order,<br \/>\nPresuming their sole purpose<br \/>\nTo bring it about.<br \/>\nNot seeing a real purpose<br \/>\nThey of needs create their own.<br \/>\nThey do suppose God less capable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With you the Hedonists<br \/> And the beliefs<br \/> Are not really as it seems:<br \/> The everlasting present in<br \/> That abode of time;<br \/> Indulgence in that time:<br \/> The present pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Their universe is one<br \/> Lacking form or purpose.<br \/> Maximum entropy;<br \/> Randon disorder.<br \/> Their world tends towards<br \/> Maximum entropy;<br \/> Random disorder.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}