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Elegy of a Chemist
April 11, 2024
Bunsen burners, now
replaced by a tea kettle
lab gloves, oven mitt
Layering pasta
sauce and cheese to bake on high.
An hour, waiting
Questions boiling:
Why put me in the kitchen?
How can I escape?
The oven timer
rings, your questions unanswered–
mitts, pencil, paper.
Your experiments,
written on recipe cards
archived for science.
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