Large Collider

He went full-lock round the Fiveways
then floored it past Murco and back down
the ring road. We all felt it: racing
his own best time, human endeavor
with the suspension dropped, pushing
for that slackless lap or, if it comes to that,
a head-on, a total, something so complete
his Corsa dissolves into colour and sound.

On TV, the Californian particle physicist
tries to explain in layman's terms: "Imagine
two cars, bricks on the gas, coming at each other
across a six-lane turnpike. There's something
in the trunk of one of the cars
but nobody knows what it is."