A few years back...
down deep in the ocean.
Scientists found some things.
of which they had no notion.
Tiny bacteria in the ocean so deep
feeding on minerals that did seep
from thermal vents in the ocean floor
out of which boiling water did pour.
My,my said the scientists...it gave them a fright
to find life on the bottom without any light.
Microbes living on things that would kill most things dead,
made many get dizzy from new thoughts in their head.
Perhaps Gold is right? said a Ph.D. doc,
that microbes could eat the minerals in rock?
And since Gold had predicted the life they just found,
he went to a bar, and bought each one a round!
Don