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seriously loving that this is what the top row of my Instagram page looks like right now
(that's a house show i'm playing, a lit mag that published my poem, and a mixtape that features my song)
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![Poem by Orchid Tierney, titled "dear dr. Williams :: hypotrich conjugation [suctoria]"
some sessile ciliates fuse at their mouths :: to share genetic material :: and sometimes one absorbs the other :: to multiple their animal :: until you can no longer see where memory and midnight curve in the middle :: although this one pair here :: you watch spin their improvisions in the fluid :: until their cytoplasmic bridge collapses :: and membanes grossly rupture :: slip their cherry organs into the wet together:: with such grace that it aluminises the light debt :: and you think :: how you wish you could shatter like that](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xn46t6pplphbqbzzhfcw6ahn/bafkreigqemkrjqkmbus6v4txbi3ri5pljbqcxizop6zwoimcxa4eoebncm)
