Single by Brendan Bonsack

A Bunsen Burner removed my eyebrow

In fourth form science

To this day, there's a corner

That never grows back

Carl Sagan says

Matter is composed

Chiefly of nothing

The universe is cold and empty

And wants to kill you

This morning

A person I'd never met

Picked me a straggly

Bunch of flowers

To give to my friend

For their birthday

Carl Sagan says

Matter is composed

Chiefly of nothing

The universe is cold and empty

And wants to kill you

I hugged another human

Briefly transgressing

The local laws

It was sunshiny and novel

I could feel my

Empty spaces closing in

Carl Sagan says

Matter is composed

Chiefly of nothing

The universe is cold

And wants to kill you

Unless it wants to make you

Over and over

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