How Things Really Are
\nby cricketjeff on August 20, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThe pillars of the Parthenon look parallel because,
\nThe masons who first made them knew a secret, and that was –
\nThat pillars won’t look straight and tall when seen from wide and far
\nThey won’t appear to be just right,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 unless they are.<\/p>\n
Not everything is secret, not all wonders mist the mind,
\nSometimes the greatest answers are the easiest to find.
\nMagician’s hide their actions but most other people do
\nExactly what they need to do,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and so do you.<\/p>\n
Conspiracies are popular, they sell a lot of books,
\nBut fail to stand the test of the most cursory of looks.
\nMost science isn’t difficult if you obey this rule
\nDo not believe all that you’re told,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 by some old fool.<\/p>\n
So next time someone tells you that a pillar must be bulged,
\nDon’t think he holds a secret that an ancient god’s divulged.
\nPick up a tape and ladder or enlist the help of birds
\nTo measure middle, top and base
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Author notes
\nSomeone (someone who is probably very like me!) was shooting his mouth off …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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