a dying flame (intro)

All the things we lost in the fire

The atoms like each other to different degrees

Now, oxygen for instance in the air would like to be next to carbon

And if they're getting near each other they snap together

If they're not too close though they repel and they grow apart

So they don't know that they could snap together

It's just as if you had a ball that was trying to climb a hill and there a hole it could go into like a volcano hole

Which might hit some other atoms making those go faster

So they can climb up and bump against other carbon atoms

And they jiggle and they make others jiggle

And you get a terrible catastrophe