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| ISSUE #34 $O.OO |
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| March 2005 |
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| ***BIO*** Richard Fein: I have been published in many web and print journals. I have two personal web sites
on which I've posted my poetry and photography. they are:
Poems: http://expage.com/page/richardspoems Photo album: http://www.pbase.com/bardofbyte |
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| SEARCHING FOR MY ZYGOTE |
| by Richard Fein |
| Not among epithelial cells,
like blood cells they're the body's mayflies transient amid the bones. But even bone cells die. It's their calcium that survives the body's dissolution. Nothing so low as colon cells condemned to a lifetime of conducting excrement. A great injustice if it were a cardiac cell, for then the grandfather of all cellular generations would be a mere slave pumping blood to its progeny. No, the zygote should be at the head of the table. A neuron is an appropriate rank, a wise old cell enthroned in the cerebral cortex. But the brain is an offshoot of the nerve cord and the cord an invagination of epithelial cells, which are transient amid the bones. I peer through the microscope as closely as an astronomer does through his telescope. I search for my zygote, and the astronomer for the x, y, z coordinates of the big bang. Both of us search for the holy grail in some garden of Eden. The astronomer merely counts stars. And I merely count cells, for my zygote spawned all its cellular creations then vanished among the multitudes. Everywhere, legions of orphaned progeny spin myths about their creators. |