By Muriel Rukeyser.
This has nothing
to do with
propagatingThe 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 dividingBut when
the paramecium
desires renewal
strength another joy
this is what
the paramecium does:The paramecium
lies down beside
another parameciumSlowly inexplicably
the exchange
takes place
in which
some bits
of the nucleus of each
are exchangedfor some bits
of the nucleus
of the otherThis is called
the conjugation of the paramecium.
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