A year was not a year<\/p>\n
Any longer<\/p>\n
Or any shorter<\/p>\n
It just wasn’t clear<\/p>\n
But the nonsense about orbits<\/p>\n
Had been pure fiction it seemed<\/p>\n
And 365 days meant no more or less<\/p>\n
Than 112.<\/p>\n
How could this be?<\/p>\n
How could\u00a0we no longer know how long we<\/p>\n
Had been in existence?<\/p>\n
And when did we start counting?<\/p>\n
And why?<\/p>\n
On whose say so?<\/p>\n
The anxiety was mounting<\/p>\n
We needed to know<\/p>\n
The reason for the lie –<\/p>\n
Was it decided arbitrarily?<\/p>\n
Did nobody argue contrarily?<\/p>\n
Would we now have to divide time<\/p>\n
By a different number<\/p>\n
To unencumber<\/p>\n
Ourselves from this fallacy<\/p>\n
About our galaxy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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