Eve and the Isotope
Eve and the isotope
Have much in common:
Both, in the cosmic dance,
Are variants.
Behold in Eden
Adam without woman
Noble atomic weight and scope
Achieve.
Behold again:
Lo! in a crazy trope,
Eve.
Eve and the isotope
Have much in common.
But who can analyze
One fairest daughter?
Who can anatomize
This heavy water?
Adam, Adam,
Abandon hope:
You can only fathom
An isotope.
The bed-companions of
Uranium
You may at last be able
To chain and label;
But woman's love,
Like woman's cranium,
Is volatile, insoluble, unstable.
Not Solomon could at his pleasure wive
235
Or fondly isolate
238.
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