"kicking endlessly among the plastic trivia, finding in each Deeper Significance" pg-590

Have I ever heard of Gravity's Rainbow
She tells me people like me know the post modern opus
I tried to tell her how I felt once



Have you ever seen a Parabolic trajectory
As it turns out people like me don't know Pynchon
I tried to tell her how I felt once


Like a Kepler Orbit
With an eccentricity of   -1
So this is just short
of coming full circle

I was e=1 
She was F
E=0 was a moments notice
She didn't notice e=2 
He made an instinctive pull at her central body
but who trusts a hyperbolic?
and the persistent e=0.5  
He may still be there waiting.... 

I said this is gravity's rainbow
Hold my heart I will show you
That is the capture orbit
That I find myself in
and she still thinks I write

But Astrodynamics 
Celestial Mechanics
Followed the stars and
a V-2 rocket heart
It's rainbow path altered by 
she named it gravity
I told her it is a distortion of space- time 
caused by a celestial body
I thought for a moment
before the grin
That I was about to feel 
the gravity of her slap
But I am older and can do things 
like speak my mind
she is older now she can do things 
like speak with her smile

I prefer words. We agreed
Our energy back then was off anyway
I was gravity's rainbow
Parabolic path past her
Trying to  slow the velocity
down just enough to
turn this escape orbit
into to a capture orbit
By just not heading away from the source
 

 -Writeredhanded




-Under standard assumptions a body  (e=1) ( I )  traveling along an escape orbit will coast along a parabolic shaped trajectory to infinity, with velocity relative to the central body  (F) (you) tending to zero, and therefore will never return.  (captains log: Slow velocity on approach and re-approach )  Parabolic trajectory  (e=1) (We)  are minimum-energy escape trajectories, separating positive-energy hyperbolic trajectories   (e=2)(the pull?)  from negative-energy elliptic orbits. (Radial see e=0 and e=0.5) (the tug,)

-But what if I get too close?  Falling to Earth at 9.8 meters a second squared is all anyone ever does anymore. I am sure I will be fine.

-Writeredhanded

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