"Right after the big bang, particles of matter and particles of antimatter annihilated each other. But for every billion pairs of particles, there is one extra particle of matter. That tiny imbalance accounts for the existence of poetry, that is, the existence of the observed universe.

A poem is a neutrino—mainly nothing—it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected." ...From Mary Ruelfe's Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lecture