The lab is not your home

no matter how many times you sleep

on that dilapidated davenport.

Because you can’t face the truth,

look it in the eyes and tell it how much

you were wrong, how you regret what

you’ve done.

So you can continue experimenting all you want.

You can mix together all the chemicals

in the world but it won’t cure the worst

disease of them all: apathy.