“and the fool hath said…”

Really, why should I get upset
why trouble my mind
since the facts are clear
and there is no room for doubt.

Science has revealed
Experience confirmed
and Logic accepted:
there is nothing outside Luck
(and, at most, Necessity).

Signed and sealed
by Huxley, Marx and Engels
(may as well add Darwin too,
though he didn’t really feel that way)
and our contemporaries,
Jacque Monod, Hawking and co-workers.

They have shown that
all this magnificent construction,
the beautiful, the so wisely harmonized
the intelligently mysterious, the inexplicable
(the more we investigate, the more we see
the vanity of our ambition to capture
all this in the narrow confines of our mind);

all this construction
that the ancients called “cosmos”
(and which indeed is a “cosmetic” gem)
all this
was constructed just by... Chance!

The Goddess who every day we rediscover
as cause and creator
of so many marvelous things:
didn’t she invent the telephone,
the steam engine, the typography,
the train, the automobile, the airplane?
(not to even mention the recent ones
computer, cell phones, television).

It is indeed incomprehensible,
inconceivably mysterious, awe-inspiring
what this Goddess can do
when she’s in the mood
and when she is assisted
by that strange old being,
antediluvian Time!

1 Aug. 2004