<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=468673" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cartoon Physics, Part 1</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know<br>that the universe is ever-expanding,<br>inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">swallowed by galaxies, whole</div><div style="margin:10px 0">solar systems collapsing, all of it<br>acted out in silence. At ten we are still learning</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the rules of cartoon animation,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that if a man draws a door on a rock<br>only he can pass through it.<br>Anyone else who tries</div><div style="margin:10px 0">will crash into the rock. Ten-year-olds<br>should stick with burning houses, car wrecks,<br>ships going down -- earthbound, tangible</div><div style="margin:10px 0">disasters, arenas</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where they can be heroes. You can run<br>back into a burning house, sinking ships</div><div style="margin:10px 0">have lifeboats, the trucks will come<br>with their ladders, if you jump</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you will be saved. A child</div><div style="margin:10px 0">places her hand on the roof of a schoolbus,<br>& drives across a city of sand. She knows</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the exact spot it will skid, at which point<br>the bridge will give, who will swim to safety<br>& who will be pulled under by sharks. She will learn</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that if a man runs off the edge of a cliff<br>he will not fall</div><div style="margin:10px 0">until he notices his mistake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Anonymous submission.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nick+Flynn">Nick Flynn</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=468673" data-title="Cartoon Physics, Part 1 de Nick Flynn" data-description="Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know that the universe is ever-expanding, inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxies swallowed by galaxies, whole solar systems collapsing, all of it acted out in silence. At ten we are still learning the r..."></div> </div> </div>

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