(a nerdy science verse)
I saw my friend the other day
His face had changed, his hair was gray
I shook his hand. It seemed quite warm
I asked him could he please inform
Just what had happened to him since
He’d gained some heated fingerprints
He looked at me and with a shrug
Said something ‘bout a diet drug
It promised him a radiance
Adjusting proton gradients
I said, “Oh no, don’t say to me”
“That you’ve been using DNP”
“It’s true,” he said, “that stuff I ate”
“In hopes that I would lose some weight”
A week went by and once again
I ran into my mixed up friend
I asked him how he felt that day
He smiled at me a funny way
Said, “I quit that DNP I bought”
“And now I’m feeling not so hot”
(DNP was a “diet drug” of the 1920s that killed a lot of people as they literally “overheated” in one of many side-effects of the drug)
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