Toby Fitch #2 Fractoidal responding to Ed Wright #1 Float Tank

Fractoidal

A blue whale’s heart is the size of a Volkswagen

you could swim through its arteries.

The spotted hyena female has a very large clitoris 

such that it’s often mistaken for the male. 

In ancient natural histories the hyena is described as an 

animal which changes back and forth between the two genders.

The English language doesn’t switch gender, grammatically

speaking. Electrical devices have alternating current

but don't care which direction the electrons are moving; 

the same amount of current flows through a circuit regardless 

of its genre. Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” 

is the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground 

at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks 

and release natural gas inside. Up to 600 chemicals are used 

in fracking fluid, incl. known carcinogens and toxins. 

“Fractal” comes from the Latin “fractus,” meaning “broken.” 

The 1883 explosion of the volcano Krakatau shot 

so much dust into the earth’s atmosphere 

sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue. 

A fractal must be irregular in shape. Most objects in nature 

don’t have simple geometric shapes. Clouds, trees, and mountains 

for e.g. don’t usually look like circles, triangles or pyramids.
In Apollo 13 a picture of the moon was generated by fractals. 
No matter how far it zoomed in the detail was preserved.

Scientists have created a Pollockizer to measure 

and prove the fractal genius of Jackson Pollock but the results 

proved fractal bunk. The first bunk beds 

are said to have originated in ancient Egypt. Ditto

suspicions of cats and the pregnancy test. Egyptians were 

crazily accurate with math: a woman would be laid 

on a mash of beer and dates and pregnancy 

would be determined by how much she vomited. Myth

being a memory we’ve forgotten isn’t real. The present 

fake news squished between historical 

and future strata. Not all stress fractures show up on x-ray. 

Evel Knievel suffered 433 to his bones 

and literally burnt bridges. If prose is a house, 

poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it, 

knowing without knowing how
moondust smells like burnt gunpowder.

(sources: various factoids found on the internet, including a quote from Anne Carson about poetry versus prose.