… or, “A Thousand Times, Why?”
Why is it
That we can send explorers to a moon
Chart the depths of an ocean
Peer into the core of an atom
Cure children of a disease
That would have ravaged whole cities
As recently as a generation ago
Craft a work of art
That defies the senses
And speaks directly to the soul
Solve for a variable
That hides among the riddles
Of an equation as long as a phone book
And invent a brand new tool
To better accomplish a task
That has been honed for centuries
But we cannot
For the life of us
Make an oatmeal cookie
That does not have goddamn raisins in it?