Haunted

**** The following poem was inspired by a coworker who confided that she has nightmares about her job.She washes glassware at the lab where we work. A test called BOD's uses special galssware which is cleaned in a special solution once a month. "Kathy" calls this job "chroming BOD's" which is related to one of the chemicals in the solution. "Danny" and "Jean" perform tests that just use a lot of everday lab glassware and "Stephanie" performs tests that determine amounts of metals in the substance tested."Fred" is a nickname for a piece of filtering equipment that "Kathy" has to pry apart with a hammer and "Sid" is the boss.Enjoy!

Haunted

Adrift in a sea of acetone

Kathy's ship did sail,

A giant test tube floating

Inside an orange pail.

And when it was time

To chrome BOD's

She jumped up and down

And shouted, "More please!"

Danny had his flasks

All lined up in a row

With pink ink inside

And wrapped up with a bow.

Jean had her beakers

Sitting on her cart.

Kathy turned to look at her

And said,"Ain't you smart!"

And when she was done

Washing all those dishes,

She sat down with Stephanie

To catch some metal fishes.

Well, along came "Fred"

And sat down beside her,

But she beat him in the head

With a jug of nitric cider!

She woke up crying

That Kathy did.

She was screaming out

"Please help me, Sid!"

It was a nightmare.

And so it seems,

That R&A labs

Has haunted her dreams!