Today's installment takes its cue from "TDZ: anti-ageing cream for flowers" by Leo Hickman at the UK Guardian.
Floral Rearrangement
A rose remains a rose, and apt to fade
As senescence advances unto death.
But TDZ can help bouquets evade
Such quickened fate, from fern to baby's breath.
Extending youthful vigor in the vase,
This artificial hormone turns the tide;
One spritz gives immortality a chase.
But TDZ retains a bleaker side:
Enough can make a crop defoliate.
While that makes cotton easier to pick,
It carries an environmental weight --
Some insects, plants, and mammals might get sick.
The agriculture tests have yet to tell
What knowledge blooms where withered petals fell.
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