Schrödinger's Monster

Let's workshop this poem about the psychic menace felt by a family following the discovery that their pet is missing from its tank

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Schrödinger's Monster

The pet, nowhere (yet 
everywhere, despite fogger bombs),
never grew more terrorizing—

dinners of doubletakes, 
movies missed in side glances,
romance unignited by candle—

than in that panopticon decade
after the denial of an empty tank:
“Mo-om, where’s—?"

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