Social Carbon

Mary Holden
Feb 23, 2017 · 1 min read
Social carbon often appears in matches; lit and as yet unlit.

Zinc stands at one

with gold, lead, tin.

No match.nom

or next of kin.

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Technetium

at forty-three

is from the Greek:

“artificial.”

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Social carbon

social neon

social boron

social xenon.

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For Greek’s “against”

and Greek’s “alone”

is element

Antimony.

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Mary Holden

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