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Writing from the stemistry lab

Evolutionary cogs

by Christopher Barnes

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Budge your dancing brawn’s
Internal walking strings
Towards the subdividing rollercoaster
On the laboratory bench.

The caressable you
Craves nursery cells
Implanted from hairs on a nano map,
Mirror brother to a stranger
Forming heart-jump life pumps
Expressing its sex identity semaphore
In a skein of ping-pongs.