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Schrödinger’s cat's a mystery cat, he illustrates the laws;
The complicated things he does have no apparent cause; 
He baffles the determinist, and drives him to despair. 
For when they try to pin him down --the quantum cat's not there! 

Schrödinger’s cat's a mystery cat, he's given to random decisions;
His mass is slightly altered by a cloud of virtual kittens; 
The vacuum fluctuations print his traces in the air. 
But if you try to find him, the quantum cat's not there! 

Schrödinger’s cat's a mystery cat, he's very small and light; 
And if you try to pen him in, he tunnels out of sight; 
So when the cruel scientist confined him in a box;
With poison-capsules, triggered by bizarre atomic clocks.

He wasn't alive, he wasn't dead, or half of each, I swear;
That when they fixed his eigenstate--he simply wasn't there!