Past the crunching twilight Through to Plato's dome The shadows flicker Oh cave, dark and binding There is a light for us all Half-light silhouettes Stroboscopic scintillationsI have ten papers I haven`t read And a pot about to boil Which I can`t seem To get up to cover To melt the substance of arrangements With an irrational touch Damned motivation Past lives with only Molecular clarity Disengage with time I waited an hour for a bus And when it came I waved it on There wasn't a difference to where it was going How I waved was very important though With a "vengeance is mine" non-chalance Everyone on the bus knew One woman threw a quarter at me, but it passed through me And later fed .001 percent of the local disenfranchised population And a cat I felt good about that. I`m not sure how much longer Things will pass through Optical density refers to the speed of light in a medium. The speed of light in a vacuum is 180,280 miles per second. Refraction is the bending of a light beam as it passes through a surface separating two different light transmitting materials. Will they examine the dried blood and chalk marrow? Will they clean the dirt from our mouths to imagine what was said? Will the best they can say be that we saw with Oedipal eyes? They a generation born without sight, Transfixed on osmosis.