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January 15, 2011
photograpia: Dear Mr. John Mcmurry, This is where I attempt to write you a freeverse poem with no restrictions, induced by my almost 72 hours of bonding with the book you authored so aptly titled Organic Chemistry with Biological Applications Dear Sir, why is it that none of your molecular models are pink and are all in dull shades of red, green, blue, and gray why is it that as I attempt to memorize the differences between enantiomers, sterioisomers, diastereomers at the number of all these words that rhyme you really should have published a song in the book I could totally help you write one, and we’ll get Justine Bieber to sing it I assure you sir, it will be a hit and you can quit your day job teaching at Cornell. Tonight as I tackle cycloalkanes and their stereochemistry I’ve always personally thought cyclopentane looks like a house I struggle with Newman projections and assure you sir, that conformation does NOT look like a chair and tetrahedral centers and handedness I will forever have to scribble on my fingernails on visualization is not my best friend. Re, Si, Trans, Cis, R, S I am thinking sir we could include models with the book and mirrors too to make things easier for those who lack the spatial orientation ability people like me. I think I shall end this letter-poem right about now I have around 50 problem sets to do not that I blame you in any way (sometimes) for making them also I think my lack of coherence at this moment makes me sound like an inebriated science major high off C2H5OH (see what I did there?) thank you sir, for creating a book dense enough to tone my arm muscles while I carry it around school I shall sleep with it under my pillow tonight in the hope that it helps me for tomorrow’s exam. With love and other chiral drugs,  Piagee A most beautiful poem. Muito bom. I love organic chemistry, I love this—what is to be torn at the heart by the seams?

photograpia:

Dear Mr. John Mcmurry,

This is where I attempt to write you

a freeverse poem

with no restrictions, induced by my

almost 72 hours of bonding with the book you authored

so aptly titled

Organic Chemistry with Biological Applications

Dear Sir, why is it that

none of your molecular models are pink

and are all in dull shades of red, green, blue, and gray

why is it that as I attempt to memorize the differences

between enantiomers, sterioisomers, diastereomers

at the number of all these words that rhyme

you really should have published a song in the book

I could totally help you write one, and we’ll get Justine Bieber to sing it

I assure you sir, it will be a hit

and you can quit your day job teaching at Cornell.

Tonight as I tackle cycloalkanes and their stereochemistry

I’ve always personally thought cyclopentane looks like a house

I struggle with Newman projections and assure you sir,

that conformation does NOT look like a chair

and tetrahedral centers and handedness I will forever

have to scribble on my fingernails on

visualization is not my best friend.

Re, Si, Trans, Cis, R, S

I am thinking sir we could include models with the book

and mirrors too

to make things easier for those who lack the spatial orientation ability

people like me.

I think I shall end this letter-poem right about now

I have around 50 problem sets to do

not that I blame you in any way (sometimes) for making them

also I think my lack of coherence at this moment

makes me sound

like an inebriated science major

high off C2H5OH (see what I did there?)

thank you sir, for creating a book dense enough

to tone my arm muscles while I carry it around school

I shall sleep with it under my pillow tonight

in the hope that it helps me for tomorrow’s exam.

With love and other chiral drugs, 

Piagee

A most beautiful poem. Muito bom. I love organic chemistry, I love this—what is to be torn at the heart by the seams?

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    A most beautiful poem. Muito bom....love organic chemistry,
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