LINEAR / ALUMINUM

LINEAR

my hands smell like dust and this fingernail i'm chewing on tastes like decay. i guess i'm a hundred if i'm a day and suddenly-- i'm crumbling away. the ashes of my shattered soul flutter down to the hardwood floor. there they lay, scattered & sporadic. i weep at the loss of a body, so systematic, to a chaos out of place in this altruistically orderly world where electronic dayplanners and cell phones have erased the need for any good sense of time & space. so i gather the dust in a porcelain bowl, rationalizing the centerfold. after all, when is anything in life ever linear?




ALUMINUM

alum (potash alum)
alumina (Al2O2, oxide of aluminum -- found in clay, emery, sapphires, rubies)
aluminate (salt of AlOH)
aluminiferous (containing alum, alumina or aluminum)
aluminize (cover or treat with aluminum -- eg. aluminize the potatoes then put them in the fridge to keep overnight)
aluminothermy (metallurgical process)
aluminous (of alum, alumina, aluminum)
alunite (mineral)