Thursday, December 13, 2012

Flying Proof

What about people who proved that man could never fly? ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Location 833)
Reasonable doubt. Where does it fit?
Incontrovertible proof —
except that it's been shown erroneous.
Actual Innocence projects find case after case,
people found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt —
proven not culpable. So what about those folk
in the waning years of the eighteen hundreds
offering definitive proof of the impossibility
of human flight?
You say you know these twelve steps,
so simple, so inane, could never work?
How sure are you? Enough to bet your life?

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