There is a theory about everything
There is a theory about education.
It’s about leading out
And not putting in
Should be
But isn’t
There is a theory about television
But it’s getting old
There’s no room for content
Only form
And who’s behind it
There’s a theory about exercise
How it used to be good for you
But now it kills
And sitting - just as bad
There’s a theory about food
It will kill you.
There’s a theory about love
Apart from the million others
All of them right
All of them wrong
There’s a theory about books
How they should be burned
There’s a theory about burning people
Upside down
Or in an oven
There’s a theory about birth control
Mind control
Eugenics
And inbreeding
There’s a theory about abortion
On both sides
There’s a theory about milk
That it’s by cows for cows
There’s a theory about Einstein
And his theory
There’s a theory about electromagnetic fields
And their discrete and continuous structures
Explained in animation
Which I don’t understand
And harm you nonetheless
There’s a theory about Alzheimer’
And the myelin sheath
And astronauts
And the space program
And space stations
And a trip to space
By the super rich
Who leave earth (for good)
For the super poor
There’s a theory about denial
And self-help books
There’s a theory about academics
By academics
In academia
There’s a theory about the internet
And an internet of theories
There’s a theory about pop
And empty bottles
And Gods that are crazy
There’s a theory about God
All of them
There’s a theory about Muslims
Islam
The Koran
Iran
And Pakistan
(pause)
Afghanistan
There’s a theory about sleep
Deprivation
Disorder
Apnea
Heart attack
And friends who die too soon
There’s a theory about friends
Music
Cancer
Biochemistry
And Osteosarcoma
And the cure
There’s a theory of Adaptation
Darwin
Organic evolution (Survival of the fittest)
And running for your life
If you’re not on the list
There’s a theory about everything
And nothing
And the origin of Zero
There is a theory about acting
And overacting
In every country
Every school
There’s a theory about nationhood
Separation
Association
Founding nation
Aboriginal
There’s a theory about beavers
And Maple Leaf
And intercultural
Multicultural
Diverse cultural
Ethnocultural
Bicultural
First class
And cargo
Where it’s ten degrees colder
And you won’t survive the trip
There’s a theory about flying
Too high
Too low
Failed successes
And successful failures
and better chances of survival
Based on row and seat number
And lucky seat with dead passengers
On either side
A different one
Every time
There’s a theory about history
Historiography
Social theory
Who owns the copyright to memory
Even yours
There’s a theory about streetcars
In Toronto
In the ‘50s and the ‘60s
That Rosa Parks of Alabama
Had it good
By comparison
There’s a theory about homeopathy
Holistic medicine
Natural protocols
Chelation
And the death sentence of pharmaceuticals
There’s a theory about death
And a religion for each one
There’s a theory about genocide
Then there’s genocide
There's a theory about rape
And who asked for it when
(pause)
And who was here first
There’s a theory about being sick
That you will it
Even in your sleep
And that goes for a country
A people
The world.
And the theory about the public sphere
It’s virtually
Everywhere and nowhere
I’m lost in theory
And still can’t hold a candle
To a dead Calabrian peasant
Who signed his name with an ‘X’
But knew the four elements of the earth
On a first-name basis
There’s a theory (mine) that I know less today
Than I did yesterday
And a theory that I prove it
Every day.
And a dead Molière talks behind my back:
Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?
