Just over a hundred years ago, human knowledge was doubling every century
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. By the end of World War II it was doubling every 25 years. Today on
An old boyfriend and I used to tease that people who listen to podcasts
incessantly can’t bear to “be alone with their thoughts.” Obviously we were
reluctant to fall into that category,
Dust rises from soil and spins
centrifuge-style around nucleus
merry-go-round, mitochondrion swimming in
cytoplasm kiddy pool. One cell to two.
Two cells to trillion, hovering, electric hum.
Sparks of white-hot light from cell
When summer officially arrived, my three step-sons had been out of school for
about five weeks already for their summer break—just long enough for all three
of them to have grown bored.
like a horse
broken by work
like a tire
worn without tread
my father said to me
let us go
home
that year
land lay fallow
and we saw
machinery sold
my father
