(A poem in honor of Galileo's birthday.)

Is that when you breathe out of a balloon and start to say things that sound funny
Like maybe man’s not really the center of the universe after all?
And that we’re wrong when we say the sun rises and sets on us?
Or to say it anyway and then blame it on Pythagoras?
And what would Copernicus say to Galileo, the Father of Modern Science
Who, when the Pope told him he mustn’t talk about the position of the sun to the earth—
or is it the earth to the sun—
Said, that’s OK, Simplicio, I was just leaving anyway.
Would he say, Hey, that was my idea
Or maybe, Thanks for taking the heat.