falling makes gravity visual
gives it a picture
but is misleading
makes us think gravity is a force
rather than a tendency

(As Margaret Atwood writes in Cat’s Eye “Cordelia has a tendency to exist.”)

or at least confuses the fact that it’s a function of space
curved space

(I’m no physicist, unfortunately. I was too busy taking Fine Art as a non-vocational
course at a vocational school, or as we call it here in central Ohio, Career Center,
to take physics. Sounds vaguely distopian to me now, “Career Center.” As Ted
Knight says in Caddyshack “The world needs ditch diggers too.”)

what you see as a straight line is not straight at all
it’s a straight line in curved space
which makes it a curved line
and that’s why I love fat guys,
or rather how I love fat guys
how I fall for fat guys

(It’s like Laurie Anderson said “…over and over, you’re falling, and then catching yourself, from falling…”, or choosing not to catch yourself.)

attracted by their gravity
the curve they push in space
the dent they make
it’s like floating really fast
not down, but toward

A: (As Todd Haynes writes in Poison “Both.”)