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
- Илона Грошева – Мой друг Евгений
- A Wold Friend by William Barnes
- Immaculacy by Satish Verma
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. William Michie: Schoolmaster of Cleish Parish, Fifeshire.
- Анатолий Жигулин – Горят сырые листья
- Robert Burns: The Solemn League And Covenant:
- Progress by Michael McGovern
- Ages and Ages, Returning at Intervals. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Степанов – В лесу осиновом
- Anarchy by Satish Verma
- The Rhyme of the Three Sealers by Rudyard Kipling
- At Galway Races by William Butler Yeats
- Autumn by Walter Savage Landor
- Sonnet 80: O, how I faint when I of you do write by William Shakespeare
- Jazz by Roland Bastien
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