I Kick Earth Away
unbound, I'm the
space-borne son
all attraction done
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orbits adrift astray
without me, Earth slides
and slips
Newton's millstone
scrapped
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cackling, I adapt
coast on Kepler's ellipse
while stars dance with
joy
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new orbits entered
all Heaven's spheres
re-centered
Aristotle's boy
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who proves all Cosmos
spins at my whim; I, the
soul
ruling paradigm
—Mike Allen