Figure E8 SOCIETY

Ascending to a chamber high and bright

In which a hundred thousand worlds are shown

Communing each to each: for in the night

That FERMI though so still, exchange has grown,

But only by mature species known.

So adolescents, socially outgunned,

Will in the grandest ballroom feel alone

And sit in silence, like a mullet stunned,

Or blurt inanities, then wonder why they’re shunned.