something somehow flickers on
like the lights on Mother in the first Alien movie
conditions conspiring
synthesizing something that wasn’t before
(that’s weird
the psychological arrow of time
the evolutionary arrow of time
a cog that cannot be backed up past)
a switch flipping on
and a bulb, pop
     but dim
     but on
          terrifying
          or unnoticed
and once something happens
it can happen again a little more

or ga ni sm
four syllables if you ask me
and multiplying as we speak
at once multiplicand, multiplier, product
and rolling
timesing time
at once dividend, divisor, quotient
and telescoping
fracturing fractions
parts spinning suspended
independent and interdependent
extending multi-dimensionally
folding back into
innumerous numbers
some simple math
some simple machines
some simple machine
one long equation
I am teeming
with legions
the composite of a slow architecture
and yet I contain nothing
     all membranes are permeable
     all space can be fallen through
I am swimming with bacteria
I’m swimming bacteria
no more than a cloud really
we’re a team
fighting infection on a daily basis
an orchestra
of fission and fusion
very chemical
a halo
a glow of fizz and buzz
one long equation
shifting continuously
balancing hourly
knocking you out like Rocky Balboa
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