Astrophysics Delivered in Verse

In 1984, an Australian Astrophysicist named J.W.V. Storey was chosen to give the final lecture at an annual meeting. Apparently, this wasn't exactly an honor. In "revenge," Storey delivered the entire lecture in verse. The 38-stanza poem, entitled "The Detection of Shocked Co/ Emission from G333.6-0.2," was later published, and it's been called "the first poem to ever appear in a scientific journal." Brain Pickings has the full poem, but here's a sample:

The subject I address today
Is that of star formation.
And what we’ve found out recently
About the situation.

Stars start out as clouds of gas and
Dust and bits of spinning stuff.
Collapsing gravitationally
Until they’re dense enough.

They form themselves in little lumps,
(Or so says this bloke Jeans).
‘Dynamic Instabilities’
Whatever that term means.

Read the whole poem—complete with diagrams!—here.