Life in quantum physics

  The cat was in the box; it was a thing and it wasn't, the box was a liminal space of yes and maybe and tease and care and excitement 

and then

and then the wave function collapsed and for a fraction of a moment the questions seemed to have disappeared 

and then

and then everything else collapsed 

and

and now I'm here among the ruins of the box, looking for an elaborate metaphor to say that

the cat

is dead