UNIVERSITY
REACTOR
Slurs
of superheated words point toward a catastrophe of silence
in a room built for interactions measured in the
core: rod drop analyses, flux profiles, power calibrations,
piles of would-be pencils
slowing neutronic thrills.
In
the smear of yellow politicized
theories students highlight calculations, hard vitrescent bodies
modeled on ideals of masculine panoply advance on society's
vulnerable positions, human physiography fitted with solid state
organs, knee-jerk responses programmed into childhood play,
automata amuck as reality
churns in a bubbling circuit of blackening schemata, downloading
glitches.
Born
in the brow of engineers when Athens was still sucking Mother's
milk, a mock war curdled with
Disneyfied whiffs of Chernobyl,
the skill of blending urchinous
souls with toy men hunting
the illusion of big game Gobots generating mutations of humanoid motivations.
Publicized
as "peacekeeping atoms," ping-pong
balls poised to say Cheese spring from their
mousetraps blasting cause into an orbit of effects.
