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Organic Chemistry, Graduate Edition

Eternal sunshine  Scrubbed clean mind  I’d forgotten To remember  To forget you,  human.  I always thought you just  Beyond (or behind) my reach  A path they could never teach  To a case like mine, Too guarded,  Nope. No time.  Me? Just one step from good enough  I ran up awkward,  winding staircases medieval structures  fashioned like torture devices, where you can easily  miss a step  and scrape your knee.  A tower prison  where the cursed are locked away  With thoughts like these…  What I should’ve said, When I saw you again,  was please  Let me stay  and I won’t go up those stairs.  The Now I’m living simply isn’t right Neither is yours.   If I had Said the words caught in my throat,  …Choking on obligation, Time would have solidified  Exactly where it should have In our before times The spiced chill I crave would have gently  tingled alive, tim...

Standing Next to You... Electric

It has been more than an hour and much longer than a minute... Since we brushed hands, passing through a doorway Three days, give and/or take. It had been even longer than that... The last time electricity powered this bulb Brighter than Tesla current, purple exploding grape Combustion free juice, gentle wetware Explicable science in delicious Tethered silence A chance often wells, Even Ada swam in those pools Love-laced between pond rock and still water Yet every glass, soft breath blown or factory hard is a craft Nothing is less than it seems