Post by seenandnotheard on Jan 31, 2012 17:35:11 GMT -5
(This is my first awkward attempt at poetry. Free verse, I guess? The mistakes are mine!)
To be and independent variable
means being lonely sometimes
when the scientist hangs up
her coat and leaves you waiting
for tomorrow
To be an independent variable
means not complaining when you're
thrown and crushed and burned
and stung and poked and prodded
and hit and pushed and hurt and poured...
into the clear, little graduated cylinders
To be an independent variable
means not to feel when all the data
is collected and the scientist finds
a better experiment to test
because being an independent variable
is all about change
To be and independent variable
means being lonely sometimes
when the scientist hangs up
her coat and leaves you waiting
for tomorrow
To be an independent variable
means not complaining when you're
thrown and crushed and burned
and stung and poked and prodded
and hit and pushed and hurt and poured...
into the clear, little graduated cylinders
To be an independent variable
means not to feel when all the data
is collected and the scientist finds
a better experiment to test
because being an independent variable
is all about change