Why am I a scientist?
Partly due to personal perseverance
And perspiration.
But I wouldn’t even have had the chance
To work
Up
A
Sweat
If I had not been encouraged from an early age
That the world was my experimental stage.
So, when I asked my mum and dad
For the tenth,
The twentieth,
The hundredth time,
BUT WHY?!?
They could have blanked me with a sigh.
They could have told me:
To shut up,
To pipe down,
To stop being a nuisance;
But they didn’t.
Instead they took me to the exotic land of Halifax,
Where I spent hours at the Eureka!
National Children’s Museum
Learning about forces and fulcrums,
Pulleys and potentials;
All the time wondering why when Archimedes
Got out of his bathtub
He
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