How To Breathe Diamonds Poem by David Whalen

A breath of diamonds

First take a small diamond
Then proceed to heat it until
It becomes extremely hot

Then carefully pour a bit of
Liquid oxygen within
A liquid oxygen proof pot

Then stir rather brisk, with
A long handled whisk… as a burn
With Lox you would not want to risk

Stir the diamond within
Watch as it dances
and revolves

Til’ the precious Ingredient
begins to soften…to melt
then dissolve

Into aromatic vapors
of carbon dioxide
So white and so pure

Then… inhale the finished dish
As deeply as you wish
And “viola! ”

You inhale diamonds
That are diamonds…
No more