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Half our bodies oxygen,       by mass. Transfermium Wars-  who knew?       elemental naming controversy,       my new favorite war. Americium-241 in your smoke detector,      alpha emitter, ionizing **** Dual atomic clocks- Ytterbium lattice-      understanding would taint this fun.      (Apparently there is a Time and Frequency      Division somewhere). Solid to vapor- if only we sublimed      our way home, though maybe better      suited for air signs. An earth sign, myself,      sticking to terra dirtus. 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126- the Magic      Numbers in physics- full nuclei,      like full bellies- maybe our magic years too...      'cept for 126- unless you're a Galapagos tortoise. Manganese blackening bulls in Lascaux. Plumbum latin for lead, ala plumbers and their pipes      of yesteryear. Fire and brimestone actually fire and sulfur,      still wrathful, though I always      imagined brimstone as being a      damning brick falling. You won't be synthesized, maybe never discovered,                 yet we sense you near, proposed metal,                 silvery white and ghosting....                                                                      119.
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Dec 8, 2019
Dec 8, 2019 at 11:33 PM UTC
Elemental
Half our bodies oxygen,       by mass. Transfermium Wars-  who knew?       elemental naming controversy,       my new favorite war. Americium-241 in your smoke detector,      alpha emitter, ionizing **** Dual atomic clocks- Ytterbium lattice-      understanding would taint this fun.      (Apparently there is a Time and Frequency      Division somewhere). Solid to vapor- if only we sublimed      our way home, though maybe better      suited for air signs. An earth sign, myself,      sticking to terra dirtus. 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126- the Magic      Numbers in physics- full nuclei,      like full bellies- maybe our magic years too...      'cept for 126- unless you're a Galapagos tortoise. Manganese blackening bulls in Lascaux. Plumbum latin for lead, ala plumbers and their pipes      of yesteryear. Fire and brimestone actually fire and sulfur,      still wrathful, though I always      imagined brimstone as being a      damning brick falling. You won't be synthesized, maybe never discovered,                 yet we sense you near, proposed metal,                 silvery white and ghosting....                                                                      119.
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32/F/Reno, NV
Dec 8, 2019
Dec 8, 2019 at 11:33 PM UTC
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