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Writing from the stemistry lab

Adhesive life particles of clones

by Christopher Barnes

About this author

I split hairs with him.
To speak he’s inbeing,
Natal, life-like –
I’m specimened
Not clotted skin-deep miracle-making
An ologyist’s destination.

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He eats my words.
His legend is an atom.
Conception’s all his own.

Now or never – Narcissus –
Punctures surface friction drag
With a pebble.  I’m lost in rippled clouds
But I’ll re-spectre.

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He is not me.