so quiet the metabolism at first
but given a water planet in the goldilocks zone
that shit gets loud and violent
respect for borders
clearly defined functional spaces
membranes, diffusion through them
gap junctions
pearls on a string
bodies strung together for some reason
for some reason
nothing you can do about it
sometimes I want each one of my cells to break free of one another
to be independent
it would save me so much worry and pessimism
heartbreak and failure
social conventions
a name for when the metabolism gets loud
burning