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Michelle Francl wonders if scientists ought to pen poetry.

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Fig. 1: Polling Twitter on poetry.

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The author would like to thank #ChemTwitter for generously responding to the poll in Fig. 1, Catharyn Turner II for her poetic assistance, Jahan Dawlaty for pointing out Ludwig Boltzmann’s poem to me and Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris for winning the US presidential election so that I could stop obsessively refreshing the election results and finish this essay.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA

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