Literature
The Earth is Round
The earth is round It’s flat, too Since there isn’t much going on Up or down But if it were just flat You could keep walking on Forever Always finding new things But since the world is round You’ll eventually end Where you began This man is building a rocket To get off of the ground And see if the world is round But I think he knows He envies his ancestors Who kept pressing west Killing the locals Until they had no more land To take Since the earth is round Space though isn’t flat, and he believes it isn’t round either. It’s just out there for him to take. But, it might be found that space is round too, and we just haven’t gone out far enough to loop back around. And when you look back far enough, space is flat too, with everything being arranged in rotating disks. In the end he’ll find there simply isn’t anywhere else to go, and he’ll be forced to confront his past. Space though isn’t flat.