I've done some reading about my little parasite (Ameba histolytica). About 10% of the world has this parasite, and 30% of Americans have some parasite or other...and since everyone has lots of bacteria and yeast in their gut...I want to point out that none of us has an excuse for feeling lonely. We just need to listen to our gut more often. Perhaps I can develop some type of cross-organism gut language (I'll call it "Interspecies Enterolingua"). I will tap on my stomach to contact to my buddies, and they can make my stomach gurgle in morse code to reply. I'm sure we can all be friends.
Ok, enough rambling. Hope those of you that are reading this are well, you and all your little friends.
Ode to the Amoeba
Recall from Time's abysmal chasm
That piece of primal protoplasm
The First Amoeba, strangely splendid,
From whom we're all of us descended
Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
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