Frank Einstein and the Space-Time Zipper (Frank Einstein Series #6)
A crow caws in the distance Venus the evening star glows silver in the gathering dusk Are we too late Maybe we missed sunset Janegoodall and Watson look up And that’s when they hear a metallic clink A knocking on the storm sewer cover Watson and Janegoodall kneel down use two rusted metal rods to pry up the metal disk Frank
2 Space Outer space Hundreds no thousands no millions of points of light dot the moonless inky blue-black night sky A kid wearing size-five brown wing-tip shoes swings a giant telescope in a slow arc He scans the points of starlight Wow Standing next to the kid a chimpanzee in a lab coat pleasantly pleasantly surprised for once agrees The sparkly expanse of the Milky Way splashed across the sky is wow
Look at all of those stars All of those suns So many planets Mr Chimp nods If we could find a way to travel out there just think we could Mr Chimp nods again his mind expanding with thoughts of the sheer immensity of the universe The sheer immensity of possibilities He is glad he came back Glad T Edison might be of some help in his Big Plan make so much money Mr Chimp covers his face with his hands If it weren’t so dark in the rooftop observatory of ChimpEdison ChimpEdison Laboratories you could see him shaking his head Now less glad T Edison shuts down his telescope He closes up the observatory observatory He flicks on the lights But other planets other solar systems are so far away T Edison paces back and forth He looks over his planet charts It takes too many years to get anywhere Mr Chimp slides his hands down his face This is the first smart thing he has heard T Edison say tonight Mr Chimp signs
