The chemical name for vitamin C is “ascorbic acid”. I always used to wonder about this one. Is being ascorbic like being acerbic? Is it like being ascetic? Absorbent? Some combination of all of them?
Today I learned that scorbi is just a Latinish way of writing scurvy. So a-scorbi-c acid is “no-scurvy acid”.
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I got scabies! Hundreds of bugs roam At my surface instead of dust. My skin Lives! I am but An offering, raw, My bugs biting their way Into me. Don’t approach me! They’re still Hungry, And their cult would mad you. I got scabies!
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I got scurvy! My mouth is a stink hole, Half-full of black, Half-full of pus; I radiate rot when I tell you About – what? – love! I refuse acidity, I refuse intimacy For I got scurvy!
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But wait – don’t leave! I got also dyke disease, So do not get close To me! Do not touch and do not stare Or you’ll end up like me Gnawing your lonely bones Again, and again, ripping them Apart, until It all crumbles between your teeth, Drying your throat – And makes you cough And makes you puke.
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