What Gravity Makes You Believe

Sometimes, in order to feel sound,

you’ll slap your feet and hands

and butt like flapjacks on the ground.

All well and good to say the world

is round, but gravity makes you

believe in flat and falling down

and that to huff and puff up to the skies

from that implies you’d damned well

better make provision to come back.

Best provision you can think to make

is just to sit right where you are

and let the others of your species

dream of weightlessly ascending

barbarously far and far and far away

to some unfriendly floating gaseous star.

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