apoesis

i wonder if one can be as easily defined as dna,
gttgcaca

and i wonder if there's a poem there. i once looked
into dna as a means of escape and a means of illustrating
narrative, because the most concrete of our notions
is the one there, in our genes, encoded by blood
and sperm; gametes, you know, the sex(y) cells.

look, let's talk it out here, these last few years.
it,life,youknow, was never just a matter of fluid exchange.

the europeans came. they burned down the village and gave me a blanket.

it was sort of like that.
a little more romantic.
a little less breathless.
they call it ethics.
the poetics of ethos/pathos