the gravity of gravity

And I remain stoic

Impudent

Insolent

Against an irrational

And indifferent

Universe

Desperately scrawling the truth on the back

Of napkins

A years’ worth of receipts

The corners of note pages

The envelopes of countless invoices etched with

Parables and prayers

To keep the stars from falling

The sun from going out

To keep earth’s gravitational pull at exactly

9.81 meters per second
per second.