This poem came out of the December 4, 2018 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from chanter_greenie and Shirley Barrette. It has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette. This poem belongs to the Schrodinger's Heroes project. "Batting Around" Evil!Schrodinger loves batting around ideas. He loves making things happen, because he gets bored easily. He has been offered jobs, in some dimensions, but he always flirts his tail and walks away: work would be boring . He loves math and science and all kinds of inventions, but most of all, he loves the Multiverse. It's big and it's intricate and it moves when he barely taps it with a paw. He knows, he knows, that this annoys other people, but he is a cat, and does not care. There are other cats, of course, and some of them do care. There is the black burden of his shadow!self, forever getting in the way of his fun. There is the strange gray who takes no sides, for all morals are alike to him. There is even a tortoiseshell that once raced evil!Schrodinger on a madcap dash through dimensions, the Multiverse wheeling and spinning, its facets flashing like fish scales. He still thinks of that caper with great fondness, even though he lost the race in the end. It does not matter. The Multiverse is still there; it always has been, and it always will be. Even Entropy's claws cannot shred it. Evil!Schrodinger loves the Multiverse as he loves nothing else in all of existence. It's so shiny . It jingles when it moves. He just can't stop batting it around. * * * Notes: Cats have strong predatorial instincts, as shown in kittens playing with balls . People typically think of the shadow as "dark" or even "evil." It's not. It's the counterpoint to the conscious self. It holds not only the primal instincts, but whatever a person tries to push down and hide away. Therefore, an evil character who lets their dark impulses run rampant will have a shadow made of all the good impulses they try to deny. This is why good!Schrodinger and evil!Schrodinger are mirror twins.