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Can you identify this poem?

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Dilbertian · 30/09/2020 20:16

It's about two lab workers, he falls in love with her, and describes their love affair IIRC. The whole poem is puns on the names of chemical elements.

Can anyone help me find it? I think it may be called My Chemical Romance, but googling just brings up a band called MCR.

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Todaythiscouldbe · 30/09/2020 20:22

I think it's called a chemical romance by Brian somebody. I'm trying to find it.

BlueRaincoat1 · 30/09/2020 20:22

I had a Google and the poem on the above link fits you'd description!

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BikeRunSki · 30/09/2020 20:26

I was going to say that it sounds like Brian Bilston. He’s a genius, not just of how words sound, but also how they look.

FlightOfTheCat · 30/09/2020 20:28

Same as BlueRaincoat but I took longer to track it down!

Lolaloveslemonade · 30/09/2020 20:29

Don’t know but I like this! See pic.

Can you identify this poem?
Dilbertian · 30/09/2020 21:30

Clever Grin

But that's not it. The one I heard was loaded with puns on the actual names of the elements.

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GingerLemonTea · 30/09/2020 22:19

This

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Dilbertian · 01/10/2020 07:37

Not that one, either.

The one I'm trying to remember has puns like chlorine=clawing, arsenium=arse, as well as puns like 'my ion you' and ' go out carbon-dating'. Unfortunately I can't remember any of them well enough to search the phrase.

If it helps, I heard it on the radio several years ago, probably Radio 4. I was driving, and found it distractingly funny. But that's also why I couldn't make a note of it to find it again.

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BikeRunSki · 01/10/2020 20:08

Google gave me this?

Can you identify this poem?
Dilbertian · 01/10/2020 21:07

Far too serious, not properly punny. Grin

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MarmiteWine · 03/10/2020 15:33

@Dilbertian could it be by Mala Radhakrishnan, in the book Atomic Romances, Molecular Dances?

Dilbertian · 03/10/2020 20:46

I have the feeling it was written by a man, though that could just me being influenced by having heard it recited by a man.

I'll search by the poet you mentioned.

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