What are we made of? Guess what? No-one knows,
Though they’ve come up with things, just theories
About the atom, molecules, and those
Daft ideas about superstrings: oh, please!
Black holes, worm holes, time travel, it’s a wheeze;
Dark energy, dark matter, Darth Vader.
The crazy boffin loves to joke and tease,
Like some good-humoured nerdish creator.
Less funny is the meteor crater:
There’s one in Iowa, and Mexico’s
Got a bloody huge one that boiled the seas
And killed the dinosaurs just weeks later.
Unlike comets, a dark meteor glows
Only when it hits: till then, no-one sees.
Mon 6 Aug 2007
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