Fundamental Particles
He has been told that all matter is made
up of something fundamental that can
not be split in two, and the beauty
of this idea has polarised his thoughts:
he is sure that it applies to people,
that if he can reduce her to so much
sand, he will find Truth, or God. He thinks
himself a scientist, like Rutherford or
Higgs, but he derides their lack of vision
in studying the collisions of dead and
artless things. Instead, flashing scalpel-smiles
illuminate other women as he
slowly slices up her heart, splinters her
again and again apart like scattered
neutrons with deliberate neutral glances
that pass right through her and land somewhere else.
He is meticulous, but she always
has more to give, staring with loving eyes
at the scientist of the everyday
who will bifurcate her until she is
perfect.
He has been told that all matter is made
up of something fundamental that can
not be split in two, and the beauty
of this idea has polarised his thoughts:
he is sure that it applies to people,
that if he can reduce her to so much
sand, he will find Truth, or God. He thinks
himself a scientist, like Rutherford or
Higgs, but he derides their lack of vision
in studying the collisions of dead and
artless things. Instead, flashing scalpel-smiles
illuminate other women as he
slowly slices up her heart, splinters her
again and again apart like scattered
neutrons with deliberate neutral glances
that pass right through her and land somewhere else.
He is meticulous, but she always
has more to give, staring with loving eyes
at the scientist of the everyday
who will bifurcate her until she is
perfect.