Chemical Attraction
(written late 80s/early 90s)
I should like to be remembered
by millions after I die;
my name mass produced,
desktop published,
plastered up on the walls
of laboratories and schools.
Not for me the frugal plaque,
vague recollection,
cobwebbed room made famous
by tenuous association.
Boxed, numbered, suffixed in Latin,
I'd survey students
learning me by rote.
It would be perfect.
Without the e
I should look a little internal;
with, I should promote phonetic debate:
Col(e)ium - The Difficult Element.
I should like to be remembered
by millions after I die;
my name mass produced,
desktop published,
plastered up on the walls
of laboratories and schools.
Not for me the frugal plaque,
vague recollection,
cobwebbed room made famous
by tenuous association.
Boxed, numbered, suffixed in Latin,
I'd survey students
learning me by rote.
It would be perfect.
Without the e
I should look a little internal;
with, I should promote phonetic debate:
Col(e)ium - The Difficult Element.
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