Mass Spectrometer

This little poem was inspired by a girl I talked to today who was extremely excited to be going to a CSI type science camp this summer.  The theme will be to solve an arson using various high tech equipment available at the local junior college.

I thought back to my frustrations during high school and college chemistry and biology classes and wrote the following after I got home tonight.

Mass Spectrometer

I wanted to measure the masses of gasses

to find the best one that actually passes

but when the tube ended

we all were befriended

by masses of gaseous rashes.