1. Relation of the discovery follows after:
[It is the work of the poet to 
transcribe newly found scientific fact 
and relate them into matters of the spiritual 
and philosophical.] 

2.
They discovered today
that the basis of all science,
[the constants, which are 
unchanging since the beginning of time
from which all theories must eventually
come back in order to be consider valid;
the proof required of the pudding, so to
speak, the]

ahem...

was flawed.

The constants were not constant at all.

3. 
In the beginning of things,
the coffee was not made at 7PM
nor boiled at the precise temperature
to which you have grown accustomed.

The light switch, when thrown
took longer to react 
to your intentions, 
the light itself
took its time,
bouncing around the room
at a lackadaisical pace.

[Indeed: Light had become 
more anxious.] 

4.
Are you happy to know that tomorrow
the ground may be transparent?
The earth may spin faster, 
the ice may freeze later than expected
and gravity might let you go 
in the middle of your leaping.

Be careful with your leaping, children!
You may be swallowed up into the moon
which may be spinning minutely faster 
than was originally concieved!


-e.

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