NGC 1275
She said offhand,
“We have so many stars killing themselves,
and none of them is making it to Albania.”
Well, she’s right, because a black hole has no hair.
The largest one swallowed 21 billion suns.
And that’s 300 million light years from Albania.
My first sight of an existential dilemma
Appeared on the front page of the Times:
The resident black hole in Galaxy NGC 1275.
There are too many supermassives to count,
But I could make a tiny one in the back yard by
Cramming Planet Earth into a snap pea.
And that mass-vacuum would hum
The longest, oldest song in the universe—
B-flat, to be sure, with 10 million year oscillations.
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