The Nuclear Force and Colorful Garments

When a star explodes,
it is caused by the gravitational pull of its great mass
no longer being able to overcome
the extreme outward pressure of its inner electromagnetic forces.
And thus, the particles of the core
are pushed outward at a high velocity.

Likewise, when a well-adjusted human being
can no longer withhold the tendency
of their limbs to spread forth,
and internal pressures can no longer be pulled within,
the common result is observed to be
a violent outward impulse.

This is what happened when Marco—
on the day he ran over his wife's tulips at the end of the driveway,
had his favorite pen burst in his front pocket,
and found the cookies he had saved for lunch crushed at the bottom of his bag—
saw a man wearing a green-and-brown plaid jacket,
and thought to himself,
What a terribly ugly and offensive thing to wear!

When the police arrived,
they used a new package of Oreos to finally convince Marco
that yes, it was okay to spare the life of the plaid jacket
and the man wearing it,
and no, it really didn't seem necessary
to drag that man out into the street to be shot.

When they took Marco away,
he screamed obscenities about the evils of poor loom design
and the absurdities of clashing color schemes.
For the sake of politeness, not wanting
to bear Marco's embarrassment further,
nobody listened.