Frida Kahlo and Rosalind Franklin, have in Common?

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Friday Kahlo, who was she? What can we say?
She stood for … a woman of substance
An opening for women’s lib and/or to be free
… at last, free from pain-dying without fame
… coming to life after death despite
… not her wish
… she never wanted to come back
… she immortal, with her art pin 2her heart

Woman are rarely taken seriously
Let’s look at Dr. Rosalind Franklin …
The true champion and discoverer of the
DNA double helix …

Who took all this glory?
Two men James Watson & Francis Crick
Grabbed all the knowledge … with heights
Data from Rosalind in 1953 credits stolen

Like a chitter running fast with her brain cells
All cheaters and murderer of her name …
We know today, the true champion and hero
A woman with a name Rosalind Franklin
… a brillant scientist and doctorate
… of her time, ahead of times!

Dr.Franklin of X-Ray refraction
With photo-51 … lets credit her
As demonstrated the double-helix structure
The DNA: Deoxyribonucleic-Acid

The dynamic molecules …
For which all genetic info/instruction takes place
Involved in all steps …
Of the development of cells, and all living cells

2strong women, Frida Kahlo & Dr. Franklin
Two minds, sadly buried without a name nor Fame they rose from the dead … the dead sea
Gave and saw them rise, reasons are alive
Today in full prints … I had to pause!

Let’s try to answer and give a salute to Frida!
She was a Mexican artist … dying July 13, 1954
At Casa Azul in Coyoacun, Mexico
Like Jesus, she suffered greatly!

Contracted polio at 10, accident at 18
Left with increase pain & immobilized
Way 2survive to seek the art or become an MD?
We’re in her head to escape dumbness
… elevate with fresh brain cells pin 2her torso

Through excruciating pains, she endured!
She pushed on …
Seeking life’s free from pain
She meet husband Diego Rivera, an artist
… some called him fatso, El Gordo
… to her it was love
… Does appearance matters? Not to her!

He took her on …
She sought his advice for the arts
Instead, a husband she grabbed
She didn’t get left back by his tricks

She moved on, childless …
With multiple of miscarriages
Was motherhood in the cards?
Not for her …

She hated his infidelities …
She loved his passion for the arts
She pure art … pain, pin to her heart left floored
She left self portraits of herself never 2die

A self-described painter
Saw pain as her new art
Portraying herself the focus of art
In her paintings … she left her heart dark black
On the floor…

Was it art or pain?
Was it herself in her head
Or the head of her imagination?
It was a desperate need to release her pains
… as she forgot how to breath
… taken less and less breaths

She divided between the seeks of …
A painter or MD, this reason she left
Her heart on the floor paintings of self portraits
… painting “The Heart, 1937”

Why is great works are rarely discovered?
After an artist dies? Well, they never die
… as they blossom, with full life Frida proclaimed I’ll never come back gone free from pains …

Her last passage “Viva la vida”, Long Live Life
“Long live, life!”
How sad …
For an artist

To die … Thinking she not an artist!
Never a mother, a wife husband a dirt bag
Unfaithful, a loser, a cheater …
She still loved him, til the end prefer death

Looking back at Rosalind
With photo-51 …
Proved the evidence needed
It was mathematical measures

Lead super scientists …
To direct, construct and trust
The development of the DNA model
To be exact that today we celebrate science

A new era of molecular match …
The spiral stairs to walk up in the air
To all the advances of science …
We credit Rosalind Francis not 2men or 3 men

Her Alma mater, London at King’s College
Her assistant, Raymond Gosling
Captured high resolution of the DNA
Thru X-ray-crystallography… in 1953 of a date

The credit went to 2false men or three
1952 image of “X” shape twisted DNA = helix
Yea, twisted DNA double (=) helix
1953 as Watson & Crick’s utilized data
Provided by Maurice Wilkins of Photo-51
… Unpublished calculations
… at Cambridge University
… published 1953 in Nature journal

At the end, Franklin’s
Own conclusions
Set prints …
In April 1953

Why is it … Watson & Crick
Gets all the credit?
Man of yesterdays’ and still today
In their head’s can still claim

“Women, belong in the kitchen!”
Thinking, women have no brain cells
As they go to bed empty-handed, no brain cells
They wake up with their wife’s cells …

Thief in the night they?
Women of science …
Before you go to bed, ware a solid helmet
Protect your brain cells … do not give it away
To false men!

It is yours! How to prove it?
Do not open your mouth …
Keep it shout, this way no flies enters in
Your defense are in your head to defend

Where did credit go to?
To a woman of integrity and increase knowledge
But, to 3 men instead:
James Watson, Francis Crick & Maurice Wilkins

In the area of:
Physiology and Medicine
The Noble Prize …? Yes!
The highest merit in science

With this prize these men pursuits their claims
With updates as genetic info strive
Flowing info from …
DNA to RNA to proteins

The twisted helix, a ladder: phosphate-sugar, its backbone outside . As complimentary nucleotide base pairs center: A-T (Adenine-Thymine) & G-C (Guanine-Cytosine) caught the eyes of futuristic
… we now know of today true meaning
… that is science!

What does Frida Kahlo & Rosalind Franklin
Have in common?
Their work as timed were both stolen
Either by time and/or by cruel men!
… Do you agree and/or disagree?

Women of today … Wake up!
Do not let your work be stolen by cruel men
Let yourself get credit …
This way, science is on your side!

Minerva A. Garcia, your Poet