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Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder

SCREAMING SKULL

Near Geneva the Hadron Collider 
lies underground. Almost 
complete whispers the giant 
screaming skull. Your species 
is obsessed with the search 
for tiny links in the chain you do 
not know leads to the collar 
of an enormous dragon. You 
have fallen completely in love 
with metal thinking. You are in great 
immaculate aluminum vats 
that make the tiny workers 
in their suits and helmets glint 
a ferocious silver cooling 
sections of the giant collider 
and preparing to send pulses 
of proton beams through it 
in opposing directions. Detectors 
will sort the microscopic 
particles searching for the elusive 
Higgs Boson or strangelets. 
For years beneath the sea I have 
been dreaming of the proper time 
to emerge and signal my ally the Sun 
to rain fire down on all 
your towers. Together we 
with our retarded cousin the Moon 
would watch your cities sink 
into the boiling oceans. You search 
for the grand unified theory 
but will find only a tiny black hole 
we will all be sucked into. 
And now I will never have my revenge!
   

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