Reentry

A Disconnection from Solidity -- these get the capital letters
For the simple reason that they are both the Platonic ideals of themselves
Only concretely real -- as concrete as vacuum and as real as everything that's real
Respectively

When you fly
(And we all have flown)
You are held up by nothing with the lowercase "n"
Because air is something
But the higher you go, the bigger that "n" gets
And here I am
Nowhere with that very same capital "N"
And I can tell that
Because Somewhere is merely a hundred miles away
And I can see it
Big as Everything

A hundred miles is less than I used to drive my car
In a week, when my car and my week mattered

Technically I'm falling. I can tell that
In my head
Because that is what happens when one is held up by Nothing
That's pretty much a definition.

Witness my Disconnection
I don't want to look
I would rather be Falling
Than simply Fall

See how I stop myself
I measure my Position
Rather than my Momentum
And here I hang
Like magic
Suspended by Heisenberg's upgrade
To Zeno's Paradox

Because I think it's REALLY gonna hurt
When I hit

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