Little Willow ([info]slayground) wrote,
@ 2008-01-25 06:15:00
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Poetry Friday: Cartoon Physics, Part 1 by Nick Flynn
Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know
that the universe is ever-expanding,
inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxies

swallowed by galaxies, whole

solar systems collapsing, all of it
acted out in silence. At ten we are still learning

the rules of cartoon animation,

that if a man draws a door on a rock
only he can pass through it.
Anyone else who tries

will crash into the rock.

-- Cartoon Physics, Part 1 by Nick Flynn

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(Anonymous)
2008-01-25 03:40 pm UTC (link)
I LOVE that. Thank you, thank you.

jules, 7-Imp

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[info]slayground
2008-01-25 04:19 pm UTC (link)
You're welcome! Did you read the entire poem at the Poetry 180 website? Oh, the ENDING.

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[info]saralholmes
2008-01-25 05:15 pm UTC (link)
This is great, but SHOOT, I was hoping it was an excerpt from a new graphic novel that I'd somehow missed the cartoon door to...

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[info]slayground
2008-01-25 05:16 pm UTC (link)
*grin* Maybe in the Coraline graphic novel . . .

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[info]kellyrfineman
2008-01-25 06:36 pm UTC (link)
Nope. I've read the Coraline GN, and she does not get to draw any doors. But it is wicked cool.

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[info]slayground
2008-01-25 06:49 pm UTC (link)
;-)

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TadMack says:
(Anonymous)
2008-01-25 05:52 pm UTC (link)
Man, I like this one.
I'm all for staying ten forever.

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[info]slayground
2008-01-25 06:07 pm UTC (link)
:)
Three. Three was a good year.

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[info]kellyrfineman
2008-01-25 06:35 pm UTC (link)
That poem is fantastic. Really splendid. And now, I'm off to Google around to see if he ever wrote Part 2.

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[info]slayground
2008-01-25 10:29 pm UTC (link)
Let me know if you find something.

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[info]kellyrfineman
2008-01-26 12:06 am UTC (link)
It exists. I found it in this search which turned up something on Google Books and let me read it. Hope this link works.

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[info]slayground
2008-01-26 02:49 am UTC (link)
Oh, wow. That invokes, in turns, The Subtle Knife, The Twilight Zone, and Without a Trace.

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[info]jamarattigan
2008-01-25 07:29 pm UTC (link)
Oh, Wow. Count me in on the "forever 10" (or younger), society. Adulthood is full of crashes.

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[info]slayground
2008-01-25 07:31 pm UTC (link)
Indeed.

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