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Motion Desensors

Motion Desensors

Did you know
our Earth spins
at 1,040 miles per hour?
(or 1,675 kilometers 
if you be metrically inclined)

I googled this fact of course
since there be 
no need to memorize
trivial shit like this
since Jedi Al Gore
invented the internet 

So we're all high speed spinners
gravitationally hanging on
for dear life on a blue ball 
we never get to view
(except in pictures)
since from birth to death
we're too close within the scene
inside this forest
to ever see the trees

Though we never feel 
our rapid rotational existence
beneath our grounded feet
(thanks gravity)
we do know it to be so
cause the search engine says so
and it's always 
sunrise somewhere
(and a contrary sunset too)
on the flip side
of the spinning planet  

That spin thing again!!!

The paradox never ends 

The illusion visual deception
that the sun on which we so rely
is crawling across our sky
when in fact it be us
who are constantly
in motion
at 1,040 mph
for you see
you and me
are perpetually
obliviously
flying objects
in the dark expanse of space

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Nigel Cresswell...

Love it mate. Great poem. 
But, also, that picture! I am a sixties child and that picture of the Rotor fairground ride has brought back so many memories. Thank you. 
Nigel 

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Steve Green

Thanks Nigel... This ride looks liked so much gravity defying fun, but I get dizzy and quesy just thinking about it
 

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Nigel Cresswell...

Oh mate one of my favourite memories is from a holiday in Rhyl in about '72. You could either ride the Rotor, stuck to the walls by centrifugal force, or if you were running short of pennies you could watch from the viewing gantry (pov for the photo). I was thankfully running short of pennies so was watching from the gantry when a really big bloke projectile vomited just as it got to speed. Covered everyone. 
Still, to feel like Spiderman... 
Nigel 

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