control group: 
imagine Einstein on a stoop 
drinking from a brown bag , huffing 
lightheaded heathen , stolen shag
the only carpet that requires raking
kept lined in a pocket next to a stolen, frozen watch 
so you always know what time it is 
and how close you are you right, twice daily 
eating steel cut rice with Bailey's 
pining down the end of the fucking world 
mapped out equations for the stones you hurled
Unlocking the mystery of misery and of death 
but you haven't beat that drunkard yet 
the one that shakes your hands as you try 
to loop the laces and make it look like the shoes' tied 
when really it's all just dragging 
pulling 
leaving wormtread down the broke and beaten path to enlightenment 
taken when running 
taken with food twice a day 
taken without alcohol or grapefruit or dairy 
dietary restriction meant to stave off the side effects 
of these pills meant to extend what's left of your life 
at the ebb 
the business end of a new big bang
the flash of self extinction 

"I am become death
Destroyer of worlds."

unlocking a terrible power 
fulfilling a terrible promise 
of a destiny whose gaze we have avoided for so long 
Until it's just us in a room 
until the eye has grown to be the everything and we cannot look -- not even into ourselves -- and hope not to find it 

here lies man 
died doing what he loved 
resting in pieces , amen