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From the LabLit science verse series
24 February 2008
http://www.lablit.com/article/356
just a nuclear raspberry
blown in the pillow-talk
of a big bang
a faint hum comes
from the bad hair day
of its electronic halo
those damn flies,
it swears, always
flirting with strangers
Related information
This poem won the poetry prize in the second CSIRO Creative Writing competition.
Read previous pieces from Lloyd Graham published on LabLit:
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• Cell-mates
back to topLloyd D. Graham is a molecular biologist and protein chemist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)