i.
John tells me geosmin rise after rain
i’m sketching charcoal into tetrahedrons& ask why
one type of surgical stitch is called a mattress stitch this type is
incredibly secure &
good for fragile skin or larger lacerations
[6C10H15O7 + heat]
he says plutonium is not the most unstable element
ii.
if we are chemical compounds this frightens me
John takes my own diseased brain
& says [i know]
[C9H7N5Cl2]
so i say you don’t & he doesn’t disagree he offers me
his lungs & says [here] they are
iii.
olanzapine haloperidol lithium
quetiapine oxcarbazepine risperidone
topiramate lamotrigine fluoxetine
carbamazepine aripiprazole ziprasidone
tuberculosis is treated by vaccination
[bacillus calmette-guérin vaccine] & antibiotics
iv.
later i count beige-brown-red-grey & pierce my tongue with a stickbug
everything happens one way for yes and the other for no i haven’t figured
out
which is which instead John & i wind some daisy chains around the
graveyard
v.
there are at least 56 trees in the world John says
the sky is g-r-e-y i like the way it looks
a word i sometimes use is succedent or fixed
this means we autumn in the north & at one time
could have been ruled by the difference meaning war
[C50H10O + 10CH2O]