Metallic Relationships

It's a matter of anodes and cathodes,
and they are not gender specific.
There is a stronger metal;
there is a weaker.  If
something conductive comes between them,
water, say,
as easy as water,
the stronger pulls substance from the weaker
in a flow of electrons (I've never seen it,
but I imagine it's true).
The stronger takes and takes, while
the weaker begins to corrode, cave in, dissolve,
and return to a state of apparent nothingness.
But in doing so, the stronger
is left with nothing to feed upon,
but itself.
Not good,
dissimilar metal corrosion,
and it doesn't have to happen.
You can be the stronger,
for all I care.  Hell,
I'll be magnesium if
you want to be titanium,
and it can work,
if we provide a non-conductive distance,
and keep that sealed,
keep it tight,
and keep the waters out.


(Son and Father Renga, 1998)