Saturday 31 May 2008

Thoughts on magic tricks

Stooge contemplates a law of physics

An accident of gravity, I am hovering above
stage planks in the Theatre Royal when
it dawns on me how long I have lain expressionless
for him. I have pored these hours over
recreational mathematics trying to figure it out;
the wonder for me is not in the floating but the falling.

Sometimes I drift off and my dreams are of waking
naked. I've learned to know these for what they are.
This act usually spells the end of something.
They say gravity is from a parallel dimension;
I dare not think what that might mean for me.

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