And this tomato tinted tornado―me—
Swollen 24 fold to approximately 160 pounds―
Each day takes in and compoundingly processes
Approximately three pounds of foods,
Six pounds of water and
Sixty-four pounds of air―
From which it extracts six pounds of oxygen:―
Amounting at my seventy years
To a cumulative total
Of approximately 1,000 tons―
The weight of one United States Navy's
Word War Two destroyer,
Or 300,000 fold my arrival weight.
But the thousand tons
Is in effect the weight
Of a seventy years long
Thirty-six inch girthed "rope"
Twisted of imaginary strands
Of food, water and air molecules
Drawn randomly from all around Earth,
And twisted temporarily together.
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Earlier:
Buckminster Fuller
