Dear Sage of the East Tower,
Dear Sage of the East Tower,
The material density of asteroids is well known (about 92.8 percent silicates, 5.7 percent iron and nickel, 1.5 percent carbon-based mutt), as is the science behind black hole accretion disks, black hole gamma-ray emissions, the whole galactic ten yards. We know why trees grow up, we know why people grow up, we know why cookies taste good, we know who Jennifer Anniston's leaving for whom, and we know there are more interesting things to know. Sound waves, the nodes of sound waves--like smooth alter-egos of barnacles--the history of the English language, mainstream American English's brutal renounciation of the infix, cyclical unemployment, supersonic boundary layers which remind us that a feather pillow thrown at Mach 3 will not cause as much damage as its shockwave: these pebbles of the physical world are known, which is to say, understood well enough.
We have a lot. I mean to say, we have a lot. Sure, I could use some elucidation on how the JFK assassination really went down, on whether UFO's really exist, on the actual content of Splenda, it's true. And it's true, I wouldn't turn down clarification on whether rehabilitation of criminals is really possible or even ethical, or how two people can hear a thing and come up with two different meanings, or what crayons are really made of. But I'm not writing regarding any of that. Sage in the east tower, sage, tell me again, what is it that they do to poets in this town?
Sincerely,
AP Saulters
The material density of asteroids is well known (about 92.8 percent silicates, 5.7 percent iron and nickel, 1.5 percent carbon-based mutt), as is the science behind black hole accretion disks, black hole gamma-ray emissions, the whole galactic ten yards. We know why trees grow up, we know why people grow up, we know why cookies taste good, we know who Jennifer Anniston's leaving for whom, and we know there are more interesting things to know. Sound waves, the nodes of sound waves--like smooth alter-egos of barnacles--the history of the English language, mainstream American English's brutal renounciation of the infix, cyclical unemployment, supersonic boundary layers which remind us that a feather pillow thrown at Mach 3 will not cause as much damage as its shockwave: these pebbles of the physical world are known, which is to say, understood well enough.
We have a lot. I mean to say, we have a lot. Sure, I could use some elucidation on how the JFK assassination really went down, on whether UFO's really exist, on the actual content of Splenda, it's true. And it's true, I wouldn't turn down clarification on whether rehabilitation of criminals is really possible or even ethical, or how two people can hear a thing and come up with two different meanings, or what crayons are really made of. But I'm not writing regarding any of that. Sage in the east tower, sage, tell me again, what is it that they do to poets in this town?
Sincerely,
AP Saulters