Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

Science Is Not For Our Kind

Science is a staid professor with wild hair
In an unkempt white lab coat stained with grease
From a hamburger he ate without tasting

Science is searching for his own truth.
Throwing other theories out to hither and yon
Insisting on his own ways; wanting some credit.

Science is not for our kind; 
Too high brow for us, my darling.
Stick with your gardening; you can plant carrots.

Sure you can prance optimistically into a lab
And give science your ideas
But they are worthless. 

When Science shoves them back into your face
or stuffs them into a test tube and dashes it to the floor
Then will you come back readily to sling some hash?

The only science worth studying is astronomy 
And there is no money in it. It is not for people like us.
We are sandwich makers, honey.

Now get your ass off of that cloud
and come back down here where we belong.
Hiding our dreams and aspirations in our stained aprons.

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Gershon Wolf May 24, 2020 at 11:24 AM Are all of your kids scientists yet?! lol. Just kidding. ~ Physics Lover Caren Krutsinger May 24, 2020 at 9:34 PM They are all kind of like scientists. One is an epidemiologist, one is an I.T. and one is the mother of six and a leader of four girl scout troops - I can think of hardly anything more scientific than the logistics of that!