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Biomimetic Microbial Poem

By Caleb Merritt

Illustration by Allen B. Thangkhiew

I wonder if I can write a MCRWVBL*PM poem anymore.

It’s been years.

Let’s try:

Yaode, Johhn, J°Hhn, J:hn, Y?

(more than seven) make their

way across the bridge, a solid

selling, grief has turned the

bridge (or two) into (three or

more) who yelp and resist their

way across the John. The Roane.

I have earned a river-frosted (one)

loosening of the limbs with my

River buckets. This makes me (one)

wonder if I am connected to

scents or if I am loosening the

grip of the saint (7) by it’s longevity?

Good question, professor John says

and also says the tomatoes in the

jar have gone bad don’t touch them,

don’t no back away help I am you

and have been dead for years already,

sea creature of the biggest heart.

My heated development has

Team Luca scrambling across the

earth, earning not much more than

our patience. Someone will be sad,

won’t they? Someone won’t go,

despite all that happens. Our

hefted sea has a battery of arrangement.

John says that loosely titled works

are the form of devil-worship,

but I haven’t even read Salman

Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and

anyways we don’t talk about

sun filtration here. (Crawley et

alwey). When mornings feel heavy,

I tend to write like Dean Young (one).

Sometimes I also just say things

aloud, simply because


I could / I can. I

been dead for years already.


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Posted On: January 5, 2026
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