Long Chemists Poems

A magical chemical infatuation
to disregard the tradition
of natures connectivity and diversity
dragged to the will of its subjugation
to dig into the complex cells intimacy
its mass increments of the yields
killing off the birds and the insects
for the...

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II.
Carmen had no other family left,
and said,”I guess I can give it a try.”
Her mother beamed. “I live in Miami,
I’ll pay for some movers to come by!”

That was how Carmen found herself living
in the guest...

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Science classes in the sixties were different than they are now. While hippies
protested, science kept its calm. Matter was arranged in tidy molecules of
atoms with tiny electrons spinning around. Everything was in order and
could be...

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No one seemed to take much note at first.
Old-timers on park benches passed a comment or two,
Somebody wrote a letter to the local rag,
but no one (who mattered, that is)
really seemed to mind.
Of course, you...

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    the High Honor 
 "boulé de tout fort"
         or
"le coq d'une fort"           ...

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He’s a broken leg performer with a crooked second act.
Went from Brooklyn to Las Vegas with his sarcasm intact.
Does a Smith and Wesson stand-up, voice as sweet as antifreeze.
Tells you how he lost his cherry...

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while soaring the heavenly heights
     many hours ago
every major metropolis appeared
     about a million miles below

the rarefied atmosphere
     ideal composition beckoned angels,
 ...

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James take off my dress

Lady Brooks summoned her butler to her bedroom,
James arrived, she said “You know why you are here I assume.
Take off my dress and do it with care,
It cost a lot of...

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We dream, with eyes that pierce the veil, 
Hope paints a future, bright and hale. 
Beyond horizons, dreams unfurl,
A tapestry for a transformed world. 
We light the path, where shadows lie, 
The human spirit, soaring...

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Say you're tired of it and be done with it
Say hello again to the pretend I know what I am doing
All I know is well I come say spacemen and other dimension guy
I saw you
I...

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Do you believe in aliens?
I do.
Not the type that are green 
with big black eyes and tentacles,
But the ones that are just like you and me
They sit imprisoned in classrooms
And worry about bleaching their hair
And...

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VOCATIONS IN VERSE

In labs, clever Chemists concoct & create,
Crafting cures calculatively & combating fate.
Meanwhile, skilled Engineers erect and design,
Building bridges & making systems align.4 

Artistic Architects envision and draft,
Constructing castles & crafting craft.
Talented Teachers train...

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You gave your love to heal a girl
A believer she was true
You put her to the final test
Her love was deep for you

Her Pastor said God loved her
She found hard to believe
The pain and danger...

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It was a mediocre and bearable day. 
I had sprinkled and smeared tiny fibers on my head to camouflage the humiliation. 
As I sedately wandered down the avenue I virtually blended in with the common...

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This sudden warped concern for ampule, 

the cruel force of world dictators,

these psychological taunt of the media, 

Nescient chemists controlling our minds,  

tycoons uttering lies in egoistic motives,

these pretentious drama of publicized jabs,
 
enhancing...

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Robert Boyle 
First latter-day chemist Robert Boyle,
never immune to laboratory toil,
practical laws on volume and pressure,
inherited as a science world treasure

Svante Arrhenius 
The bright Swedish type named Arrhenius,
was renowned for his passionate genius,
in the physics...

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Biologists observe the features,
Of fungi, germs and plants and creatures,
Of violent bangs there is no fear,
Except Exploding Elodea,
(You’ll need a syringe that’ll stick,
To perform this nifty trick)
How living things work, you will see,
When you learn...

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SURVIVAL OF THE WITLESS
		— James Ph. Kotsybar

When fire, water, earth and air were thought
to be the elementals that composed
all matter, folks did not become distraught
at what avant-garde chemists then proposed.

Most understand that our world is...

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hospitals overflow, all are helpless
fear of death enveloping other fears
covid threat challenging our core concepts
looking on, we can but wipe away tears

no cure exists, yet placebos vanish
police force to dispel crowds at chemists
winner takes all;...

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