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
- Before You Returned by Shahida Latif
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня девушки в тайге
- Николай Заболоцкий – Когда вдали угаснет свет дневной
- Ольга Седакова – Успение
- Владимир Британишский – Смерть Крылова
- Smoke by Théophile Gautier
- Аля Кудряшева – В этом городе птичий полет шелестит быстролистыми кленами
- Did You Never Know? by Sara Teasdale
- Гавриил Державин – К силуэту Ивана Ивановича Хемницера
- In The New Sun by Philip Levine
- Wintering by Sylvia Plath
- By the Dusk – Ao Entardecer by Soaroir de Campos
- A Peck of Gold by Robert Frost
- The Vier-Zide by William Barnes
- how far are you? by Raj Arumugam
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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).
