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This fragment asks what it means when people with choices about gravity keep doing whatever defies or tests it, making the page feel like a prayer mixed with alarm.

Because it is so compressed, the image stays open. It can suggest recklessness, spiritual ambition, or simple human arrogance toward the conditions that hold us down.

Six lines that open as a stalled prayer: 'God help us, / or should we hope', the comma and line break setting petition against doubt about whether hope is even warranted. The unease then settles on a guarded image - 'When those, / who have a choice, / about gravity / Do it alot' - where having 'a choice / about gravity' reads as the power to fall or stay, and doing it 'alot' tips the metaphysics toward a quiet dread of self-destruction. The compression keeps the referent open, but the prayer's faltering and the choice about falling do the work. Source spelling 'alot' is kept as written.