It's not rock...
My profession’s very taxing (see below for the specifics)
So I decided on retirement that I’d take up nuclear physics
Colleagues talked of ‘dumbing down’, and their horrified reactions
To my enthusiasm for such as photon-pion interactions
Were most off-putting and could scarce have seemed much snider
Had I said I’d spend my pension on a new Hadron Collider
‘Ok then, chums,’ I sniffed, ‘if you’re so down on nuclear fission’
‘With its quarks and anti-quarks, I’ll try a new ambition’
‘Enough of muons, gluons, and such “elementary” particles’
‘My hobby will be lawyering and five full years of “articles”’
Well! I might as well have said ‘I’ll grind the faces of the poor’
Or ‘I’ll hose the starving and the needy off the steps outside the door’
‘SO ALL RIGHT!’ I snarled at their derision with defiance
‘What say you if instead of those - I TAKE UP ROCKET SCIENCE?!’
And how they laughed at that, my one-time work-place buddies
‘Come on,’ they snorted with contempt, ‘it’s hardly media studies’
