The Wonderland Dream of Death
The Wonderland Dream of Death
Chapter 1
Amoebas live for two days
but are immortal.
When an amoeba gets ready to die
she splits into twin sisters
each of which is the same as her mother.
The amoeba who lives for two days
is also immortal, not a contradiction.
The sisters are their mother but they are not.
The mother no longer plies the waters.
Mother is her whole family
for every generation,
years divided into two days.
Her offspring steal her life.
She trades death for immortality.
Chapter 2
With amoebas it's reversed.
The soul dies and the flesh is immortal.
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These are bits of who we are,
the fundamentals of the Earth.
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Creatures of the air
space the passage of flesh
between now and tomorrow.
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