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Spring 2009 JBWB Poetry Competition Third Prize

Particles

Noel Williams

noelwilliams@blueyonder.co.uk

 

Mountains are made of rocks,

Which are made of stones,

Which are made of pebbles,

Which are made of atoms.

 

But what are atoms made of,

Miss?

 

Miss gives me a look, flicks through a book,

Sighs and says, "There's:

quarks, squarks, glueballs,

anti-neutrinos,

muons, gluons,

tau neutrinos,

leptons, sleptons,

gravitinos,

bottom baryons,

wimps and gluinos."

 

Most amusing, Miss.

Ho ho very ho!

Why not just say,

if you don't know?

©2009 Noel Williams

 

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