elbaum@reed.UUCP (Elbaum) (12/08/83)
Inside Out floundering writhing wildly in vaccuum freefall panic eyes wide mouth deeply black and silent a rubber-gloved hand holds the flask to the light peers self-consciously at the latest gyrating breakthrough the report has just left the briefcase and focusses through thick black glasses into the agency head a decision is made and the lever is pulled in a hundred under- ground rooms as the leaden doors split wide the landmasses adjust across millenia to their final balance and the geothermal giant falls asleep and falls away across blank expanse on a yearly rhythmic gyration toward ultimate escape as the planets drop into milky blackness