Body Chemistry
Our bodies perform
lots of chemistry tricks
to break down our food
into useable bits.
We also have microbes
inside us to aid
with eating the chemistry
soups we have made.
These frothy reactions
will bubble and pass
some carbon dioxide
and nitrogen gas
which tries to get out
of our digestive parts
by causing our bodies
to make lots of farts.
Those microbes make
hydrogen sulphide as well.
A gas we all know
by its terrible smell.
It’s not what we’ve eaten
or what we might drink
but mostly those microbes
that make our farts stink!
first published in Scientriffic #71 January 2011