NOT

If matter 

consists 

of atoms, 

and atoms are built 

from a nest 

of six quarks 

arrayed 

in all possible 

locations in space,

and space 

is made of infini-

tesimal points—

each point, 

a need 

which has been blocked

(that is, neatly pinned-

in on all sides) 

by a lack;

why, then 

all the plaudits? 

It makes a lot of sense

for us 

to persist—does it 

not?