a found poem
Late in life
Einstein apostrophize[d] Sir Isaac
With intense intimacy
Newton, verzeih’ mir’
Reflecting on [Newton’s] absolutes of space and time
[Shattered by] his theory of relativity
Newton forgive me
You found the only way
which in your age
was just about possible
for a man of highest thought
and creative power
Found in Peter Galison’s Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empire of Time
I'm not entirely sure what "apostrophized with intense intimacy means", but it sounded intriguing, so I ran with it.
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