Acid and Bases

How convenient, a little lesson on poison.

I assure you, there is no joy in witnessing

the fatal crack of severely used calculator,

and afterwards, feeling with raised hairs,

the chilly notes leak slowly out of

a blind pen into my equally

sightless brain.

Later, a forced couplet of elements

are plucked from the periodic table

and shoved strictly down

tortured glassware, afterwards,

sloppily poured into tubes

just as fragile as my interest.

I glowered with no small intent

so long that my planets turned dark,

looking down at the past, current, future,

a trip even I could admit,

could turn a heart set on rage,

to uncaring.