Humbled by Hubble
Twinkle Twinkle
By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 03, 2017
Humbled by Hubble
Uncertainty principle
Utterly flattening Newton
Medieval notions of God
Jerusalem as center of Universe
When maps were flat
For most folks still are
Even Lutherans
One nation under
God of carnage
Comical chaos not so
Funny as endless space
Hubble nearing its end
Gazing ever deeper
Making us seem smaller
Puny dunes of sand
Stars and galaxies
Twinkle twinkle
Numerous as grains of
All the world’s beaches
Sons of beaches on beaches
Oceans of notions
Queer as folk
Peaches for preachers
Bullies in pulpits
Me as picador
Banderillero’s barbs
Enraging bourgeois beast
Swipes of the cape
Blood on the sand of time
Hell as other people
Pussilanimous pugilists
Ropeadopers
Ali set me free
Arms too short to box
Mud wrestle with infinity
Again you scoffed
As is your want or shuck
Jive and jitter
Gary Glitter in Quadrophenia
Roman candle whoosh
Shot in the dark
Lighting night sky
What best to say
Depends on the day
Quoting all those sources
Better and wiser ones
Artists must ignore
Stay true to their work
Robbed from the masters
So says the savant
Pleading sly ignorance
Godhead or is it
Brideshead revisted
All them slimy limeys
Guardians of the canon
Fodder for gonzo
Sound and fury
Signifying here and now
Slip sliding away
As Tonto would say
Eh kemosabe