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Astronomy Says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
Zoology Says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
Psychology Says: but first it has to be night, so
Biology Says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
And
History Says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

Albert Goldbarth

Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.

Albert Goldbarth

Albert Goldbarth

Albert Goldbarth

Born: January 31, 1948 (age 76)

Bio: Albert Goldbarth is an American poet. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for "Saving Lives" and "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology", the only poet to receive the honor two times.

Known for:

The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems (2007)
Heaven and earth (1991)
Budget travel through space and time (2005)
To Be Read in 500 Years: Poems (2009)
Pieces of Payne (2003)

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