I Just Wanted to Tell You

"Universe of Particles"at the LHC Particle Accelerator  at
Cern, Geneva, Switzerland

I just wanted to tell you. . .

That nine times eight is seventy-two

And yesterday a little dog was killed

on the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Rainbows bleed infrared

And balloons can only hold

A finite amount

of a little boy’s breath

My mind screamed suddenly

At the realization that its

Imprisonment meant

It could not fly

off to that space

I was dreaming

distant spiral galaxy

And thirty-seven decades ago

Imagination could not even mate

With the brilliant golden leaf

That twisted seductively

On that maple tree standing

Just ten feet away

I am so incurably

Primitive

And consciousness

A nymphomaniac

Locked inside a nunnery

Disgusted at the triviality

That calls itself my existence.

I just wanted to tell you. . .

That this is but an electron

Slammed at speeds beyond reason

In some cavern beneath the Alps

While the rest of me

Went to sleep.