Cosmic Man

Portrait of Albert Einstein, the human being. Special mention at the Son of Slam.

Cosmic Man
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Scratching
His wild shock of unkempt hair

Meditating
On the mysteries of the expanding universe

Doodling
E = mc square on toilet paper

Bending
Past the sun at the speed of light

Undecided
On the choice of trouser and shirt to wear

Pondering
On the relativity of space and time

Afraid
Schoolteacher's wrath when math wouldn't come

Splitting
atoms and crying for Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Plucking
pizzicato on violin strings

Between
Scratching, plucking, doodling
Creating, pondering and meditating
We travel the Einsteinian highway,

Relatively speaking.