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
- Robert Burns: In The Prospect Of Death:
- Dirge For A Joker by Sylvia Plath
- There is a life-force within your soul by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 02
- Drowned in Illusion by Rixa White
- Михаил Кузмин – В гроте Венерином мы горим
- Chapter Headings by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: The Lass O’ Ballochmyle:
- The Woodlark poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Welshnut Tree by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Inscribed On A Work Of Hannah More’s: Presented to the Author by a Lady.
- Sonet 53 by William Alexander
- Street In Packingtown by Willa Sibert Cather
- at Weeping Face. by Walt Whitman
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