As a health tonic,
My grandfather ate
Gold.
Atomic Number:
AU,
Is what he said to my her,
As she walked by in her server’s cocktail dress.
Metallic,
Like the sheen of his slick black hair and her long red nails.
Density:
19.3 g/cm^3 at celsius
20,
Is how old she was when they met.
Vanderwaals radius:
.
1
Year later,
44,
He’d be. And dead.