probably for the best

Apology to Pluto, And Congratulations

I heard the news, they say you are not a planet.
You are too small, too far away for us to count
You a brother. You must believe . . . I did not have a vote.

But just think . . . beyond the bounds of Neptune
You are the next big thing, the rooster, the home
Town hero back from war. From war with us—despots and patriots all.

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The Vindication of Einstein by Eddington in Principe on the Occasion of a Solar Eclipse, May 29, 1919, Thus Ending the Great War Between England and Germany. [get the whole story]

Romance of relativity leaves

positivists leery,

loath to dream

of an actual world.

World for lovers of seeing

things skewed,

things hidden, say,

by the sun. Or, say, another

World of lovers seeing,

as it were,

or will be,

things skewed.

So photo those ancient

lights, newborn

to our blind eyes,

scores of unwashed

stars skewed

By the glint of our dullish Sol.