(New Zealand Herald headline, September 2010)
And what will you do
when you find it
Sir Particle Scientist
Astrophysicist Large Hadron
Collider manipulist
since splitting the atom
has given us
what anyone can do
with a president’s jab
or a general’s thumb or an ill-timed
tsunami quake
I mean blast us all apart
This divine blob
Sir will it give us
longer mortality
a deity more just
even a home maybe
on stilts with wings or gills
in sinuous global
scans
This particle
you call god Sir
will it Stop Press
countermand
confuse defuse or fuse
split atoms
and family body-bits
we wipe off our bloody hands
October, 2011