contemplativescience scares me more than witchcraft
pocket protectors more than warlocks do
genetic re engineering
more harm than herbal spells can do
microscopic murders
fracking of our earth
fucks us up more than
witchdoctors and voo doo doll pin sticking mirth
so don’t be afraid of Erichtho, Merlin, or Jack O’Kent
but the quiet guy, with Ray Bans, who with your daughter in college
last night spent
they’re the ones writing binary codes
redesigning our genetic pool
making quarks dance on a string
while we sit on our baby boomer dunce stools
our Medicare monies redirected in finance
to a budgeted staff of a stem cell lab
forget tarot cards & star mapping
science has your soul already nabbed
©2012 Ruth Follmann
