Upon entering the anatomy academy
And reading each book through, I soon remarked on the astonishing capacity The body had to do. Think how overwhelming life is for an active lymphocyte. A trip across a thumb Takes hours of labor, bumps, and scraping with all its might Till it's fin'ly done. Could I, behind my podium, balance out the sodium Racing through my tubules? Could I, through my glasses, define all the masses Of nerves in my lobules? Could I, if I chose, convert glucose into glycogen Or, better yet, back again? Could I, if I wait, navigate a breath of air back To an alveolar sac? Could I, if I'm idle, end a knock-down drag-out fight With an eager phagocyte? Could I, if I tried, redirect my core blood flow To a freezing frostbit toe? Not I. But my body can. But the most amazing thing in a sea of amazing things Deserves a passing remark. We humans are so dependent on the light to aid our sight. We hail, we look, we hark. But how does one cell call another? What force unseen brings Them, binds them, in the dark? Each cell's uncanny attraction to another is a marvel to me. For when left unchecked, These noseless, eyeless, earless, legless cells continue to be Effortlessly perfect.
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2/23/2011 03:07:39 am
Priceless! You're bringing me back to biochem & physiology...
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