A Minor Scientific Revelation
in poetry form

It continually perplexes me how I can be lying down and the bottom eye closer to the pillow tears up but the further one dries up
but actually as I write this and spend 0.5 seconds to think about this for the first time in my life, I realize I have the answer:
tear ducts and gravity.
The bottom eye never drains into my tear ducts, instead tearing up and shedding those tears on to my pillow.
The top eye only drains into my tear ducts, perhaps a little faster than normal because of how my head is tilted so that the tears are dragged by gravity straight into the drain rather than resting comfortably and being re-spread around my eyeballs with my eyelids.
I guess sometimes all you need is some time alone to process and think, and to maybe let your right eye cry as your left eye dries.
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Gravity. Do you think about it? Does it affect your day to day? Do you trip a lot, like me? :’) How does gravity impact your day?
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Hi I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and thank you for reading the live experience of what it was to realize exactly why I experienced this weird phenomenon. Ps, get an irregular and definitely not daily, weekly or monthly dose of random shower thoughts?
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