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Single Cell Medic

Medic medic
Amoeba down
Hurry hurry
Before it drowns

Step step
From there to here
Medic medic
Has no fear

Dividing dividing
The nucleus splits
Membranes membranes
All have slits

Fix it fix it
Cytoplasm’s spilling
Rushes and gushes
The scene is chilling

Stitch stitch
The vacuole
Medic medic
Has a micro-tool

Amoeba amoeba
Will survive
For now for now
On a micro slide

But wait wait
Paramecium
Medic medic
Can you see him

There there
In a morass
Sliding sliding
Off the glass

Drat drat
Coz really a
Medic medic
Can’t fix cilia

Panic panic
Cells are dying
Flagella flagella’s
No longer flying

Sorry sorry
Some protozoa
Die die
Bye sporozoa

Medic medic
Always on call
But but
Can’t win them all

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Panagiota Romios

Date: 6/17/2023 10:25:00 AM

Hi David, You combine humor with poetry and science greatly. For ne this brought back days at Loyola university Love your humor. It totally lacks vanity.c congratulations.! Pangie

Nancy Kaufman

Date: 6/10/2023 2:33:00 PM

Obviously you are a scientist of some sorts?.I drank from a spring once that a beaver went in and that's been my only experience thus far with amoebas. I did lose a lot of weight before the doctors finally figured it out.

David Fisher
Date: 6/17/2023 4:43:00 PM

Thanks Nancy. That spring water adventure didn't sound like much fun. I'm not a scientist at all, unless there is a scientific study of words and rhyming? Who knows.

Sotto Poet

Date: 6/8/2023 6:42:00 PM

This poem, David, is imbued with a wealth of scientific wisdom. I relished this scientific prose and your poetic talents are truly remarkable in how they conjure evocative language and imagery.

John Loving Iii

Date: 6/6/2023 11:41:00 AM

OLD OLD memorable terms from science class. I would rename it Microscope memories. You must be a teacher?

Gershon Wolf

Date: 6/5/2023 7:09:00 PM

H I L A R I O U S, David! Just love it. Hope you had as much fun writing this as I had reading it! Thanks, gw