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One Lonely Molecule of H2O In those huge, amorphous clouds out there, Is there one H2O molecule, That was once in my blood, That once sloshed upon the deck Of a sultan's cargo ship, weaving her way through the Indonesian Archipelago? Was it once puffed out, In the steamy breath of Genghis Khan's horse?-- Its origins going back to the dawn of earthly materials and physics as we know them? Or was it formed in combustion, in 1945, On a tragic, sad, horrifying day, When the good ole US of A, Proved her Atomic Might In Nagasaki-- And will this hydrous basic unit of our ubiquitous yet precious substance Be split apart in 10 years, By a professor in a lab, in Chem. 101, Demonstrating hydrolysis? © Copyright 2001 Daniel E. Talkington Next Back to Index |