One for all you chemistry lovers out there!
Lithium
Friday morning, after a slow week
Ready with chemical reagents
and a syringe
My hands move with more care than normal
Fine motors operating, charging
the round-bottomed
flask with a water-free solution
of diphenylacetic acid
Pro-mixture, that
stirs and receives butyllithium
Lithium carboxylate forms first
Then, the yellow
appears, deepens in colour, as I
know C-H becomes C-Lithium
Now, it’s teatime