Everyone Knows

EVERYONE KNOWS Everybody knew that the earth was flat There were lots of bumps so not flat as all that Though ships seemed to sink out of sight in the distance They would come back with reassuring persistence But everyone agreed from the peasant to The Crown Clearly up was up and down was down They all knew that the earth was the Centre, the middle Sun and stars all around, it couldn’t play second fiddle Galileo demurred; didn’t fit his equations But revised his opinion on powerful persuasions So reality continued to veer from the actual ‘Till they could not deny all the evidence factual The theories of Galen from centuries ago Said blood moved in the body by ebb and by flow Then Harvey discovered the blood’s circulation Requiring that science give reconsideration Though facts showed that Galen’s old theory was failin’ Some proclaimed that they would rather err with old Galen Now everyone knows climate’s in bad transformation Based mainly on computer model simulation CO2 is now villain and viewed as a bane Yet the plants and the trees relish more of the same We are told it is true, scientists agree far and wide Like when Earth was flat, and blood moved with the tide But science is dominant, and considered unmalleable Except that the scientists are human and fallible Just like all human race they have weakness, will amend a Set of data not fitting their venal agenda Use your eyes, beware those things everyone knows In a trice could be gone like the yesteryear snows