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Lewis Bosworth
Poems
Jan 2017
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
You may not want me to tell you about
The Galilean thermometer,
But I’m going to tell you anyway:
[It will improve your life!]
The GT is colorful – its rainbow
Of glass bubbles sparkle
Slowly as they sink and swim
Buoyantly in liquid.
Signor Galileo was savvy for his age
[Late Elizabethan],
Even though he didn’t shoot an
Apple off anybody’s head.
GG was one step ahead of Einstein
[Alphabetically]
As his popular theorem posited that
If D↓, T↑.
This can be seen by ogling the GT
[Note the dog tags]
And checking to see if the blues
Are higher than the reds.
In Galilean terms the colors of the
Glass bulbs are unimportant
Since D is a function of the dog tags,
[Ma Nature dictates the T].
GG invented the GT because he had
A dream one day that
The climate in Pisa was warming up
[The tower began to lean].
Rising and falling as a result of density
Isn’t new to science:
[Jump in the neighborhood pool].
Ethanol in water.
GG’s heirs haven’t profited much from
the GT, nor has it been widely
copied by entrepreneurs of note:
[“slow and lazy”].
The verdict on the GT is still out, but
Early reports suggest it won’t
Exceed the popularity of the Chia Pet
As the holidays approach.
© Lewis Bosworth, 6-2016
Written by
Lewis Bosworth
Madison, WI USA
(Madison, WI USA)
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