Poem Number One on Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, or The Impossibility of Long Distance Relationship

James Bowden

There is no chance that we will move apart
There is no chance
There is no stronger attraction.

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This series of poems was generally inspired in form by June Jordan’s short poem, “Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love”.
This one in particular is meant to come right before the original Number Two poem linked above, and hence carries some implication about its own folly. There’s version meant to come after, “Poem Number Three …”, and so on.