Powers

How did it start? Did I fall in to a nuclear reactor? Crawl out with acid skin or something worse A hostile alien ambassador Or am I simply another of the universe's failed experiments? Either way, I have been wondering just how it is (how it is) I have never heard (never heard) The tale of how I got my powers Thrust into being, careenin' along On a crooked little trajectory Dissolving in movement, a body in orbit Or a roach on his way to the gutter The tail of a comet burned up in an instant The destruction of matter It's no object to be seen in the Supercollider Just a light in the tunnel or whatever gets scattered Light flashing before the eye of whatever comes after The force of our impact, the fission The hum of our contact, the sound of our collisions