Give me back my name
tell them i'm gone
tell them i'm gone to change my name
give them any name
i'll not give them another name
tell them i'll not take my father's name
no more father than i'm my own
i do not create
i'm not responsible
i have no ownership over my makings
so i'll take this name i've got
for the moment
tell them
and i'll go short-changed to be cast again
yes
tell them i'll go and change my name
not have my name changed
and come out again unchanged
tell them again i'll not take my father's name
yes
tell them that
tell them i've gone to change my name
my very own name
and yet keep the name i've gone to change
yes
tell them that
tell them when i'm there
i'll see why josephus broke the essenic law
why marx the mighty essene changed his name
and note
why the ribonucleic-acid embargo in between
why the dna father-son short supply
i am a cell lodged in the molecular-memory-millennia
i'm the agent of growth and decay
i see the cells strung out in an embryonic fantasy riddle
while intercourse was still permissible
i proclaim
i propound
in my genes the spermatic stimulation
the evolutionary process
the woman the link-breaker
keeps it all going longer and longer
until i stand and transmit
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poem by T. Wignesan
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