10-01-2017, 08:56 AM
Rutherford
Make me a tube, clear glass,
the length of a man,
one end exposed to silver-white
blackening in the air
as its decay phosphoresces
in a neat pattern. Remove the air.
Insert a foil of thinnest gold.
Observe.
Let others wallow in greed
and filthy yellow mud to turn
entire lives into trinkets
for the callow. I need only
the smallest part of their
blooded product to leave
the earth
and open the stars
Make me a tube, clear glass,
the length of a man,
one end exposed to silver-white
blackening in the air
as its decay phosphoresces
in a neat pattern. Remove the air.
Insert a foil of thinnest gold.
Observe.
Let others wallow in greed
and filthy yellow mud to turn
entire lives into trinkets
for the callow. I need only
the smallest part of their
blooded product to leave
the earth
and open the stars
It could be worse