The Conjugation of the Paramecium
by Muriel Rukeyser
This has nothing
to do with
propagating
The species
is continued
as so many are
(among the smaller creatures)
by fission
(and this species
is very small
next in order to
the amoeba, the beginning one)
The paramecium
achieves, then,
immortality
by dividing
But when
the paramecium
desires renewal
strength another joy
this is what
the paramecium does:
The paramecium
lies down beside
another paramecium
Slowly inexplicably
the exchange
takes place
in which
some bits
of the nucleus of each
are exchanged
for some bits
of the nucleus
of the other
This is called
the conjugation of the paramecium.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- In the Philippines, August Is a Celebration of Buwan Ng Wika
- The Prophet poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- On Flaxman’s Penelope by William Cowper
- Gratitude, Addressed To Lady Hesketh by William Cowper
- His Last Request to Julia by Robert Herrick
- My Modern Surrealist Mind by Shaunna Harper
- On Wenlock Edge The Wood’s In Trouble poem – A. E. Housman
- To a Pupil. by Walt Whitman
- Guy Faux’s Night by William Barnes
- Аля Кудряшева – Замылим, потом замолим
- Владимир Британишский – Чай
- La Vita Nuova by Weldon Kees
- A Song of the White Men by Rudyard Kipling
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