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A physicist and an engineer 

Sit in a concrete bunker

Attached 

To the world’s most elaborate racetrack.

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They’re shooting atoms at each other

In a facility

Designed

To understand what occurs

When the smallest elements of matter

Should so happen to 

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   collide.

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It wasn’t just a car crash. It was 

An accident, so I’ve been told, 

With one of the lowest percentiles

Of survivability. 

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head on, high speeds,

with a force and velocity 

equivalent to 

a bomb.

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And the funniest thing about it 

Is that you can hardly call it an accident

If the person that’d caused it -  

Firing atoms into a vacuum -  

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was drunk. 

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I just imagine those engineers, 

Atomic physicists, hammered, 

Shooting atoms at each other 

Because all they wanted to do 

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was die.

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Terrible, but I can't help but chuckle

Picturing slurring, suicidal lab coats

Trying to end it all

In such an elaborate, bookish way.

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makes me laugh every time

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