Science grows in every Garden
Thrives on Evil just as Good
Two examples, each one modern
SS Saturns splash the moon
Apartheid fission bombs atomic
QED, which was to prove
World Wide Web, DNA, Moore’s Law
Fulcrum, lever, a standing place
Move the Earth with a single paw
Anthrax, VX, even the pox
Soon will be brewed
By troubled post-docs
No more Euro trains to ride
Where showers steam
Cyanic insecticide
Today the Mail delivers the spores
Directly to you
Door-to-door
Denial keeps us unsafe and insane
Upon the inevitable,
Whom will we blame?
Police state methods unconstitutional
Won’t levee loathings
Rising effluvial
All our lives, standing on gallows
Hostage to every
Degreed, demented fellow
Carriers, subs, nukes galore
If we only had a target
We could settle the score
We thought our land as imagined by Locke
Hobbes got it wrong
So we were taught
Science now hath all that abort
Life of man, solitary, poor,
Nasty, brutish, and short.
I was back in the Quads.
Things at the beginning of 2009 feel much as 40 years ago, in 1969.
Forty years used to be two generations, now half a life, or less.
But there we are, with Hobbes again.
Comment by Ned Wiley — February 23, 2009 @ 15:51 |
If you think bathtub genetics is an exaggeration look here.
http://www.boston.com/video/viral_page/?/services/player/bcpid14094180001&bctid=20816393001
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