We’re on the same boat
Nurses and teachers,
Doctors and farmers,
Mr. Moreno and his “maricon”
Enrico Macias and his dry guitar,
We are on the same boat,
The Sevillans and the Marseillais,
The Brazilians and their forests,
My sister Anne and her diabetic patients
Catholics and Muslims,
we are on the same boat,
firefighters and butchers,
The jellyfish and the ancient Greeks,
Psychiatrists and Carl Jung,
the Breton cakes and the scholars,
We are on the same boat,
The astrophysicists and mangousts,
Tarzan and the pizza eaters,
The farmers and gold miners,
We are on a steaming boat,
That of men who seek God.
gang of astrophysicists
figuring it out
utilizing hundreds of devises
standing on the shoulders of pioneers
gang of astrophysicists
understanding what must be done
allowing astronomers to see invisible objects
we are small, but we are mighty
gang of astrophysicists
working miracles
tackling the cosmos
explaining horse shoe Einstein ring
gang of astrophysicists
maneuvering around hundreds of millions of objects
Making the universe
feel a little less huge for the rest of us
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXIII
IF you pull a long non-plussed face
Astrophysicists declare Science no Absolute Truths underlay
Big-Crunch might on Big-Bang back bounce about face
Who'll say All-This's but mere hearsay
If you pull a long heretical face
Opt for accidentally ordered Life as did Hawking portray
Almighty be a Barrau's " tout comme " Lord of Multiverse
Who'll say All-This's but mere hearsay
If you pull a long Question-Marked face
Two brothers in '43 jumped into the Future to aver
Great Lakes all make for one big sea surface
Who'll say All-This's but mere hearsay
If you pull a long besotted face
Long walls of Black Holes tugging pulling us in disarray
Andromeda throttle surge through our Milky Way interlace
Who'll say All-This's but mere hearsay
So if you must pull a long-lost inane face
Light-propelled ET-ships visit us NASA-men say
If you can the future tell e'en of one of the human race
Then nothing anyone can ever do the FUTURE gainsay
© T. Wignesan - Paris, February 14, 2019
New exo-worlds have recently begun
to reveal their presence to science through
our astrophysicists’ exploration,
utilizing technologies so new
that even one generation ago
such things weren’t considered conceivable.
Outside of a novel or picture show,
they just weren’t conceded believable.
One, near its sun, is a warm, rocky sphere
with liquid water, perhaps an ocean,
which would also indicate atmosphere,
and a peculiar, EM commotion.
While many regard this notion with mirth,
some claim these are broadcasts that dub it “Earth.”
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