Poems of the Week

Issac

by Mike Mesterton-Gibbons

“A new bench unveiled close to Sir Isaac Newton’s birthplace has been engraved with an incorrect
spelling of the world famous scientist’s name.”
BBC

I deserve more respect: I begat
Science watching an apple go splat.
So ass-backwards I’m not—
And yet that’s what they’ve got
Carved in metal behind where you’ve sat!