Week 2 - Social Media for Library information study

My 2nd Post

Slow Down

I stole the brain of Einstein to feed a hungry head.
Sliced some in an omelet with a roll of onion bread.
Biting, chewing speedily, to prove his theory chaste:
That time does stall (however small)
When feasting past the taste.

I smeared a slice with cold-cream
Onto a winter face.
In hope that smart-cell makeup
Would return me to my place; meanwhile,
I hid within the basement to escape the force of fate.

Blinded by the science, nowhere left to turn,
I consulted the Necronomicon and prayed I would not burn.
The words were chanted freely -- the cost only this news:
A reversal of the flow of time
For a soul that God refused.

Young and fit and prosperous,
I discarded all the brain.
But in my blackened, empty shell I knew there waited pain.
Tricked, the time sped faster -- faster than before.
When once again the winter came, Einstein was no more.

Copyright © 1995 Tom Arnone

Copyright © Tom Arnone | Year Posted 2016

Poem available online - http://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/slow_down_779201
Image resource - https://g2walls.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/library-day-is-tuesday/