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TechnetiumJanet Kuypersfrom the “Periodic Table of Poetry”” series (#43, Tc) 7/10/13
You’re named from the Greek word for “artificial”,
We wanted to discover, we wanted to find you out —
We can only find you after your brethren
your name is a bit misleading, though, since
Though it’s funny, we searched for you for so long,
of our nuclear power stations. Then everyone thought
You’ve been put into the environment as
but what I’ve learned is that doctors inject
so they can see exactly where they need to heal people.
but now you’re used in 20 million medical procedures
and the way you decay helps doctors see
And yeah, you’re nuclear waste injected into a human,
It’s hard to believe that we searched for you for so long,
in North America alone — every year,
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