ytterbium
and other rare earths I know nothing about
save
that they are essential in many
industrial processes
always
fascinated me as a child though they are not so rare
as
I thought and indeed I still know little about them, anymore
than
I do about other things that fascinated me such as space travel
and
cheese-making
music
tart as blueberry juice
from
a dead composer out of the hellish ’30s
that
time is coming round again
oh
the cleansing products of coal and oil
T.N.T.,
amatol and so forth
nothing
much takes my interest unless it leads somewhere almost
utopian,
which leaves most
things out
crystal
sets and solar collectors made from tinfoil do not any more
poems
sometimes do
I
resolve to eat less sugar than I can powder the Milky Way with
and now
I shall go to bed to sleep the sleep of the easily bored
I love this humorous tone!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it's much of a poem — I was at a loss to come up with much last might!
ReplyDeleteThe comment on the metablog, and that sense of saturation, that weird chemical, like artificial sugar, makes the fillings ring!
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