(no subject)
Trainor, the druggist
Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist,
What will result from compounding
Fluids or solids
And who can tell
How men and women will interact
On each other, or what children will result?
There were Benjamin Painter and his wife,
Good in themselves, but evil towards each other:
He oxygen, she hydrogen,
Their son, a devastating fire.
I Trainor, the druggist, a mixer of chemicals,
Killed while making an experiment,
Lived unwedded.
Edgar Lee Masters
Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist,
What will result from compounding
Fluids or solids
And who can tell
How men and women will interact
On each other, or what children will result?
There were Benjamin Painter and his wife,
Good in themselves, but evil towards each other:
He oxygen, she hydrogen,
Their son, a devastating fire.
I Trainor, the druggist, a mixer of chemicals,
Killed while making an experiment,
Lived unwedded.
Edgar Lee Masters