Jules Verne Didn't Know

​Jules Verne didn’t know 
The half of it: Journey to
The Center of the Earth, really!?
He didn’t even get through

The crust. How about getting 
Through a universe, a handful
Of vacuum, a shpritz of wormholes, to
Sail beyond Taurus the Bull.

What if spectrographic analysis
Yielded no serviceable result,
Because they revealed nothing but
The presence of an outer tumult?

And meanwhile, inside, whatever it is
Is turning everything, even its opposite,
To itself, with lots of cosmic 
Foaming, and yet it has exquisite

Precision in its manifested 
State. Should that break down,
What disaster, if it only followed
Rules that were a hand-me-down.