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.
