Michael Shepherd - 0060 Melanin

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Melanin is a polymer, most often of two molecules with very long names, indolequinone, and dihydroxyindole carboxylic acid, which are in all of us, affecting skin and hair color and even present in the eye and its color and the brain too; the word comes from the Greek for ‘black’ It is believed that all of us whose ancestors lived near the Equator, and that could be all of us yeah originally had black skins, inherited suntan if you like but that those who moved up north got whiter – which helped to absorb Vitamin D from the sparse sunlight and stave off rickets and such. All pretty cool so far, right? My clever schooldays friend later researched melanin finding in the course of his studies that a rubber factory in South America somewhere, tires I think not condoms used a compound that accidentally turned black-skinned workers into white which caused some social consternation So, are you wondering where this poem Is going? Or is it a bit too obvious? Well, I’ll stop there, and you can follow it up yourself. No point in spelling it out In black and white. Michael Shepherd poemhunter.com/poem/0060-melanin/