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Allopatric SpeciationOnce this binaryReproduction has played out,A third species willLeap, mind transformed, into space,Light-years beyond the human.[Disposable Tanka July 15, 2010]Dr. Mike
It slowly bludgeons into you.Your head aches with resisting it.Desire is even harder whenyou know that you've been missing it.
Desire and guilt -- gifts that keep on giving.
What fuels carnivoresis death: need and shame are twinincisors. I eat,becoming both what I eatand the way I consume it.Can an animalturn itself into a tree?Yet soil, too, is death--twice-worn flesh, leaves sanctifiedby worms, whose mouths embrace all.
Allopatric Speciation
ReplyDeleteOnce this binary
Reproduction has played out,
A third species will
Leap, mind transformed, into space,
Light-years beyond the human.
[Disposable Tanka July 15, 2010]
Dr. Mike
It slowly bludgeons into you.
ReplyDeleteYour head aches with resisting it.
Desire is even harder when
you know that you've been missing it.
Desire and guilt -- gifts that keep on giving.
ReplyDeleteWhat fuels carnivores
ReplyDeleteis death: need and shame are twin
incisors. I eat,
becoming both what I eat
and the way I consume it.
Can an animal
turn itself into a tree?
Yet soil, too, is death--
twice-worn flesh, leaves sanctified
by worms, whose mouths embrace all.