call me by name: slowly dying plate breaker
by call-me-by-my-other-name
the laws of physics, meet the laws of human nature
spinning plates
are always white unblemished so their breaking into pieces
is more visually enthralling and definite
been a spinner magico for so long, you’d think I deserve some
gravitational dispensation
it doesn’t work that way
when you learn to be a spinner, they teach catching too
but that was so long ago,
tho the endless spin slowing,
obedient to the laws of physics,
the human laws of the physical
give time power over gravity
making the eyes weaker
the hands tremulous
the arms woodenly worth less
so a crash is a forethought, imagined, inevitable
time is the most powerful force in the universe
the laws of physics, meet the laws of human nature