the physics of love

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the physics of love

mass is not proportional to volume

a girl as small as a violet
a girl who moves like a flower petal
is pulling me towards her with more force than her mass.

just then, i am
like Newton's apple
i rolled towards her without stopping
until i fell on her
with a thump, with a thump, thump.

my heart
keeps bouncing between the sky and the ground
it was my first love.

(김인육, 1963)

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