Multiplicity Duplicities

Roses are red
Viruses are dead
What else have you taught me

Columbus - first to touch the land
That's what you'd have me understand
So it must verily be

But what if I disagree
I have eyes that can see
And this world is still a mystery to me

In some places, roses are pink
Which really makes me think
About all of the possibilities

And viruses, well they're dead
I can't get it out of my head
They can replicate? ... Really?

But what if it's not true
Just like roses can't be blue
They don't have the anthocyanines

Columbus did sail an ocean blue
But the first? They said it was true!
I think the Zeno Brothers would disagree

So how many things are still a lie
I need to find out before I die
May this be my soliloquy

And about the touted multiverse
A notion old-timers deem perverse
Something they would never conceive

It makes it easy to explain the comics
How about the aforementioned topics
Roses, viruses and the Columbus seas

For if a duplicate universe could be
To justify all of these complexities
What a happy man I could be

Ah, but life is never that plain
With liars, cheaters and those insane
To teach us of all the things we see