Near perfect summer school day,
Everyday could be this way,
Great weather, volleyball, football,
Wonderful company to crown it all,
Right through I kept thinking of all of you,
More than anybody else I prayed for you,
Critical to my sample size and statistical power,
So as soon as I took a refreshing shower,
To get news of you I checked my mails,
Frantically scanned through my sea of emails,
My heart sank with the weight of lead,
To read those heartbreaking words that you were dead,
Though knocked by this umpteenth dose you were cooperative and very nice,
Closed my eyes and could spot you among all the
other mice,
No doubt I had surprisingly gotten fond of you over the
weeks,
I'll miss you in the next few weeks,
As the study winds through this tortuous bend,
I know you were integral part of the means to an important end,
Sadly you go with a lot of essential information,
Wish there was now a better means of communication,
I have thought about the resurrection of the dead,
To retrieve all that neuro-toxicological information in your head,
The Parkinsonian information in your steps,
I sent you to the doctors for an autopsy,
Cause of death came from one particular biopsy,
What a tragedy for this experiment,
The study will only know detriment,
Adieu dear friend...
Adieu with a heavy heart I wish... I wish... I wish...
I wish you wouldn't die with all that information in you.
Brussels © November 2014 afesehngwaHilary
