Dan Campion

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Practical Application

Spooky action at a distance
Isn’t spooky anymore.
Presently it gives assistance,
Not available before,
Thanks to quantum fluctuations
Relayed down from satellites
Steering us to cold libations
And hot pies on pizza nights.

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Dan Campion is the author of the poetry books A Playbill for Sunset and The Mirror Test and the monograph Peter De Vries and Surrealism, and is a coeditor of the anthology Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song. His poems have appeared previously in Light and in many other journals. Dan lives in Iowa City, Iowa.