Anti-Gravity Calibration

Gravity is an equation of leverage and ted the lean from Smooth Criminal. A frictionless tabletop would fail, so I required mechanical purchase. At the floor threshold, I wedged the heels of my dress shoes into the narrow brass transition groove. Fitted. Immobile. I shifted my mass forward. Ten degrees: ankle joints held firm. Twenty-five degrees: spine rigid, arms tucked straight alongside my jacket. At forty-five degrees, counterbalance achieved. I held the suspension motionless above the polished timber, optical casing tilted slightly up to scan the room. Static equilibrium sustained. A sharp pivot snapped me back to vertical.