04-02-2021, 04:24 PM
A Lemon's drop
Some say an apple, some a lemon's drop
made Newton sit up and think about things -
why the good earth's round, finches need wings,
what men of talent are hidden milksops
to be thrust into shade, a country copse,
there to lament as Philomel, that sook
Leibniz, Edmund Halley, Robert Hooke,
who sold out their businesses, shuttered their shops.
I say more: that unremarkable apple/lemon
drop contained all that came before
and of afterwards, more - Maxwell's demon,
the stones of Giza and El Mirador,
right up to the geometry of Reimann
and pregnant clouds of Los Alamos lore.
Some say an apple, some a lemon's drop
made Newton sit up and think about things -
why the good earth's round, finches need wings,
what men of talent are hidden milksops
to be thrust into shade, a country copse,
there to lament as Philomel, that sook
Leibniz, Edmund Halley, Robert Hooke,
who sold out their businesses, shuttered their shops.
I say more: that unremarkable apple/lemon
drop contained all that came before
and of afterwards, more - Maxwell's demon,
the stones of Giza and El Mirador,
right up to the geometry of Reimann
and pregnant clouds of Los Alamos lore.