New Mexico Tech Poem (College Poetry)

*New Mexico Tech*

This conception will only become what you make it.
Here’s how demolitionists who’ve landed here make it:

With a mixture of
Excellence in
Teaching and Research,
Classrooms decoding the science of lightning in the lab,
And encasing it in volatile minds
that go off
to the 40-square-mile testing range,
and prepare to blast through the sky
like the 2.4 meter telescope held by the span of brainpowers
that say with the right telescope, we will be able to see if life exists up there.
Well, we say you already can. Up there in those clouds are the shards and fragments
of what has detonated from the ideas of Socorro, down below,
And as these pieces lay harmless and used,
They prove that something living can cause something so very explosive,

now what better sign of life
is there than that?

From Alma Mater Vol. 3: The West
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