The Sunday Poem: Science Homework
(Visited 5354 times)My daughter has a science project she has to do. It involved testing various substances to see whether they were acid or base, using a stinky cabbage juice concoction. We did the experiments on the kitchen table this evening…
Science Homework
Cabbage juice and acid a pinkish fluid make.
Cabbage juice staying blue means you found a base.
Cabbage juice with bleach, though, is turning green;
Heavens! A chemical reaction unforeseen.
Glasses strewn on kitchen table, tablespoons of love,
Careful mixing of antacids and the smelly stuff;
We tolerate the messes and hope nothing explodes
For sake of experiments further down the road.
Avogadroās number has nothing much to tell us
Here on a Sunday while younger brotherās jealous.
āI want to blow stuff up!ā he says; someday his chance will come.
Meanwhile, I ladle cabbage juice into a poem.
If only we each got six glasses for our mixtures.
But all our lives are made of tests that became our fixtures.
Hypothesize, trial run, measure and record;
You take the acid, form your base, and keep on moving forward.
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The Sunday Poem: Science HomeworkPosted on March 17, 2008 by Raph
Methinks the dragons take flight in vain.