Chemical Poet Pillows

'Yes love is a potent drug indeed...but I still don't think we can analyze it using gas chromatography...'

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"This is a lovely old song that tells of a young woman who leaves her cottage, and goes off to work. She arrives at her destination, and places some solid NHHS in a flask containing 0.50 atm ofammonia, and attempts to determine the pressures of ammonia and hydrogen sulide when equilibrium is reached."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

"The menu just says fried fish, but may I give you a more compelling, surprisingly lyrical description?"

"It does have a side effect. You'll faint when I tell you how much it will cost to produce."

'I pledge allegiance to the atom, and to the periodic table on which it stands, many particles indivisible, with orbitals and electrons for all.'

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

Open mike night presents Sadie Cohen. Summer's almost over

"Do me next."

"Not only pharmaceuticals - we're also finding all sorts of industrial chemicals here."

Edgar Allen Poe

'We look for a new drug, we find a virus - we look for a new virus, we find a drug...'

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"Now I really hate poetry."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

Why we need poetry. . .

Carbon Dating.

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

Molecules You Ought to be Aware of.

The Style of Elements

Scientists are sexy

John Bunyan

Micro Psychiatry Clinic. You have a full schedule today, Doctor. The helium atom will be here to work on his fear of heights. The white blood cell with a germ phobia and amoeba with separation anxiety are coming in. The DNA molecule will be here about an identity crisis. And here, in the sports car, comes a new patient, a carbon-14 isotope. Ah, looks like he's going through a half-life crisis!

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."

When the world is Mud-luscious - e.e. cummings

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision