Tuesday 4 August 2020

chemistry

chemistry 


triplumbic tetroxide 

you’re making me frown

you stood and you watched as

my precipitate came down


vanadium pentoxide

you have converted me too

catalysed the reaction

made SO3 from SO2


potassium permanganate 

your oxygen demand

has turned my fingers purple

as i started to titrate

with an indicator’s hand

or black with silver nitrate 

or acid red and alkaline blue

so turn off the Bunsen 

the H2S generator too

there’s nothing left to do son

the assays are over for you 


switch off the extractor

the double distiller H2O

the muffle furnace a factor

across the linoleum floor 

dim the lights for the night shift

as the works hums a lullaby or two

the chemistry a rich gift

i’ll leave it here with you

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