You speak of science -- how it lacks
imagination, soul and art --
and thus you parrot other hacks
like John Ciardi, stupid fart,

who saw as ogre anyone
who tried to understand the world
and, trying, lit up like a Sun
the magic science has unfurled

by pruning everything unreal
and leaving unsuspected truth
eclipsing falsehoods that you feel
sustain the fantasies of youth.