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Author: inbabylontheywept
a silly ode to the first mitochondria, with waaaay too many religious allusions (the mormons put me in seminary for four years and now it's everyone's
problem)
the garden was not made of trees
the snake did not exist
when Eve was formed inside the seas
and then was set adrift
she drifted in the tidal pools
prokaryote divine
producing simple molecules
acids and alkalines
but paradise can never last
and every god must fall
some swallowed by a cytoplast
(entrapped by a cell wall)
what do you call the dead that rise?
what name is there for this?
an Eve that finds that eden lies
inside of the abyss
the wall no longer trapped her in
but locked the monsters out
the freedom only she could win
to swim, and grow, and sprout.
she tinkered with her molecules
And in a twist of fate
Created one of life's crown jewels
Adenosine Triphosphate (1)
what was before a simple wall
could bloom with organelles
a garden grown from former falls
a paradise in hell
a fortress swam inside the brine,
a thriving little town
where tiny citizens could shine
and ride the ups and downs
a golgi apparatus strove
to package safe proteins
a lysome found a nice alcove
and kept the whole cell clean
the centrioles rebuilt the walls
whenever they grew weak
and eve was known and loved by all
as something quite unique:
the powerhouse of the first cell
the mitochondria (2)
the Jonah that became the whale
the jesus of bacteria
once eaten by a macrophage
then made through death anew
the founder of our current age
the sprout from which we grew
[author notes:]
(yeah, yeah - you try and use this line in a poem)
(gah. this paragraph killed the syllable counts. i was challented to fitthe phrase "powerhouse of the cell" into it, and mitochondria had to fit somewhere. both of which were gonna be doozies. decided to put them back to back and break the scheme at the end.
[tags:] #biology#poem#the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell#i was googling so much biology shit for this#and i still know that someone is going to go#HEY#IDIOT#YOU THINK X?#NO#IT Y#STUPID#and i will slink off to the saddest darkest corner of the earth#and mope until i die#its like a whole prophecy now#strike me down apollo you incandescent bastard#if you couldn't get me back in arizona you cant do shit to me in utah
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Date: 2025-07-20 06:17 am (UTC)Also the tag #strike me down apollo you incandescent bastard# utterly cracked me up.
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