News Overheard in a Taxi

Giddy scientists from MIT, ecstatic

over measurement of a sub-atomic

particle that wouldn't exist were it 

not for their exuberant efforts. 

Imagine the effort to manufacture

something nature sees no future

for . . . all to understand perhaps

how things began: Was it collapse

of things pre-existing things we

can detect that freed 

the initial bang? Scientists

want to know and, honestly, isn't

there some curious malady

that plagues riders in taxis

with the desire for answers?

Though, that this observed

meson oscillates three trillion times

per second, doesn't help define

the swell of anger when the light

goes red . . . as though to spite

our simple desire to get on

with the endless journey home.