17. Currents

Volta stuck
ends of wires
in amu
sing solu
tions of im
pure elec
trolytes and
other ends
in frogs' legs.
Which twitched
almost as much
as the un
believing eight
eenth century
mind
while leeches con
tinued to suck
good blood and New
ton and Leib
nitz wore out
hundreds of
goose quills
in search
of tyrannical control
of angels' breath.

While Weimar burned
and Percy fiddled,
Mary, dear
Mary, made
the leap imag
inative
ly that we
for all our
vaunted cle
ver stuffed ga
dgets still have
n't managed. Where's
Volta when
we need him, not
to mention Ma
ry. Oi vay.

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