HOAX
                                               
                                              A scientist in a white lab coat ran from
                                              the government building, ripped off her mask
                                              and cried eureka, then was promptly arrested.
                                              Cried eureka then was promptly arrested. "Nothing
                                              left to cure but that boredom," she said.
                                              Bulging briefcases flung open as thousand
                                              dollar suits with ten thousand dollar ties
                                              chased after rumors, the puts, the rights, the
                                              patents. "Get her on the phone, negotiate,
                                              speculate." One eye on the wrist watch, the
                                              other on the ticker tape. Buy! Risk! Sell! Panic!
                                              The day they found the fountain of youth, the
                                              stock market crashed. The day they found the
                                              fountain of youth, boys and girls stripped off
                                              their shirts and kissed.
                                              Bums on benches cradled their liquor bottles,
                                              laughing hysterically, as people pushed, fought
                                              and fell, splashed and spilled, shot and killed
                                              in public water fountains, now red.