Turtles are one of the slowest animals...
Ever!
Until you look real close...
They are glitchy!
Their leg movements seem to stutter-glitch?
Have you ever seen rims on a speeding car going so fast
they seem to spin in reverse or turn slowly or stop completely?
A plane propeller does the same thing...
Glitchy!
What is jet lag?
Time travel in its infancy? For us...
Is it the after effect of being time un-zoned?
Glitch!
Proof even...
A particle of light takes a mini-second to be...
Created in the furnace of the sun...
Then 10,000 years or more to escape the chaos of its central gravity well...
And 8 minutes to travel 93,000,000 miles from the sun to our Earth...and die!
Or is it a glitch in thinking it died?
In similar fashion,
Perhaps the turtle is going so fast that the blur-image of its passing...
Has become its reality.
Maybe Terry Pratchett had it right...
And we are just a flat world (table-top?)..
Astride 4 giant elephants..
(That like smoking blunts when on their vacay)..
And they are the pillars atop an even more gigantic turtle...
Traveling the cosmos at its leisure...
Swallowing star systems and leaving a poop trail of black holes.
Everything needs fuel of some sort.
Meanwhile, small turtles zoom around at immense speeds creating magnetic fields...
Warping our POV..
Thinking the world is round..
(Conspiracy theorists need not apply, please!)
Those crazy little turtles creating their constant image of slow..
as minds of men cannot capture the glory of such velocity!
Also, creating our gravity wells..
that keep the inmates from flying off into the void...
The darkness of space...
While them lil turtles you think you have cornered in an aquarium..
as a pet in their little home...
Have escaped the boundaries of its three dimensional captivity,
residing in the complexities of the 4th dimension..
and other realities...
And the physics of impossibility knows..
You are centuries, eons away from understanding..
If ever!!
PEACE
About the Creator
Victor Mendez
Born in 1958.There's a lot of road beneath these feet.Worn out pairs upon pairs of shoes.Been a ranch kid,a city kid,a Marine,a dad, a grandfather now,an avid reader and just recently began writing poetry in 2015 just to vent.



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