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On falling

"Your feet

are finally on the ground," she said.

-Tori Amos

It is a sort

of attraction. Everything

attracts everything, relative

to distance. Finally the devil

of the Z-axis makes sense.

Why the bridge suicides 

function. Why I have to choose 

to get out of bed. Why we build

our airports as temples, and act

like mystery cultists to refuse

Earth briefly. Think of physics

as a world

where unrequited love works.

You cannot fall if you are touching.

You cannot fall

if you are too far from anything

to be moved. Well, more or less.