#679 - colouring in

 

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679

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colouring in

for the philosophy of table tennis

 

we live in the various parts of day

 

a line is always moving

watch!

take a corner, tug!

 

in good years all sing

survived!

that was the mulberry’s last

 

what squabble

the one rose whiff

and wings

now vocalize!

 

a roundness apparent

go along with this, so far

 

here we take charge of the weather

 

it’s the caption in the picture

 

add curve to arc to tangent

think of it as a sphere

46 point something billion any direction you like

light years I mean

so

 

easier that way

what are the odds?

 

imagine a perfectly round egg

Euclid and Ptolemy and many

that godshead in The Seventh Letter –

it simply can’t be done

 

or not in three dimensions

not out in the open let’s say

 

fact is

all afoot

even the house, these walls, a world

our sun’s a constant hurtler

and where’s it…? I mean wither?

 

it’s easy to think just of expansion

and out like a candle one day

 

consider the galactic plane

we are circling the centre, bit of a bounce

over and under

who’s there?

the many!

(in principle, never uncountable)

I have heard it’s 7 kms/sec

nor is it a circle

 

that’s 26,000 light years away

out here on the Orion arm

 

these are rumours the scientists spread

such truths as they draw

not from thin air

what fires!

what startling distances

desert sphinxes loom

 

see how it runs!

 the nearly void

happens to be almost everywhere

 

atoms!

the immediate neighbourhood

uncanny, the mirror in all

 

but blink and

what’s the matter?

gone!

 

all writing is a signature

 

there are some asking

‘is God responsible for just this one?’

there’s assumption thrall!

 

singing ‘old acquaintance’

‘don’t fence me in’

 

continents drift only so far

 

the world has an end

and it’s where I’m from

 

once there was a danger

might have been a pillar

could still be a mőbius track

dubious warp woof girth

 

quite unremarkable, it’s said

think how many exoplanets in that jar

and what of eternal life?

 

there’ll always be something you haven’t considered

think of the cosmic microwave background

go on!  just have a poke at the numbers

 

till tinnitus rumble

the music of spheres

and then it’s dinner done

or cat for an experiment

room swung

 

some people still think the universe is flat

and many have already fallen for

 

a geodesic manifold must dress one or the other way

 

one could go on

and it does

though whether finite?

 

these little tricks of the lit world

this universe for a knock knock joke

 

drop of sweat to mark the brow

 

the head is always a worry

take twinkle, so go on  

 

must trust in the little we know

 

bought a new light pump

to help through the dreaming

and now the days are gone