Day 42: The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

Forty-two is the answer

If you ask the right question

To life, the universe, and everything

Like time, quantum physics, and dolphins

Working in fractals

Doubling by dividing

Two times two equals four, afterall

Beside potted plants

A whale can live as long as it can fall

If you forget, you can fly yourself

If you want to know the answer

To the simply existential meaning of life

Remember, it’s forty-two

If you ask the right question

And thanks for all the fish!

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Author's Note #1: If you have never read or watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, then none of that should make sense.

Author's Note #2: If you have read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, then I apologize; it deserves a much better poem than that.