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
- Ярослав Смеляков – Хорошая девочка Лида
- Robert Burns: The Epitaph:
- Beginners. by Walt Whitman
- Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre by William Alexander
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- Learning to Study – Hindrances to Study
- Komori by T. Wignesan
- Quarrel In Old Age by William Butler Yeats
- CloSe To My Heart by Nishant Deherkar
- Disconnect by Snowdon King
- Владимир Британишский – О чем размышляют
- The Gardener LXVIII: None Lives For Ever, Brother by Rabindranath Tagore
- For Life and Death of a Poet by Marcin Malek
- Николай Заболоцкий – Неудачник
- Among The Narcissi by Sylvia Plath
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
