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ecrivan
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my own state

0 posted 2003-02-26 12:40 PM


First comes before last
now that you ask
much more plentiful than least
especially alive..not deceased
especially when you're concerned
about cellular 'discoveries'
seconds pass on then hours
so that candle wicks turn to dust
and lights dim to dusk
and a primitive organism
escapes its husk...to bud.


yet last but not least
a singular organelled animal,
or was it a more complicated beast
winked back at its host
compelled to eye division
until sticky bee secretions would saturate
there lay the basis for fermentation
respiration without air
anerobic..with a flair
curious little cell, afloat
like a mariner who hauls up a main sail
to catch favourable nectar winds
happy in a honey terrain...
happier in its malted brew.

first comes before last
now that you ask.







[This message has been edited by ecrivan (02-26-2003 01:31 AM).]

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Gaia
1 posted 2003-02-26 01:12 AM


Why do I have this urge to shout out
"amoebas unite" to this one?
LOL. I enjoyed this cellular level look at life.

ecrivan
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2 posted 2003-02-26 01:32 AM


there, my intestinal amoebas got me to adjust this and remove the first from first singular animal..won't rewrite biology then hehe


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