amoeba.

waltz on false feet,

pseudopodia!

a magic spell for making substance out of meat.

unicellular gel:

ensorcell with parasitic practice. 

i’m doomed to lose in every timeline

because there’s nothing more fatal than fragility.

leech off from false feet,

pseudopodia!

a magic spell that makes me complete.

i’m something grand.

god complex higher than the sky,

towering hubris always on brand.

i am leaking happiness from my false feet.

pseudopodia!

with this magic spell, crystallize my intestines

or shape them into sleet.

stare into my single-celled emptiness 

and assign meaning to bleak nothingness.

pseudopodia!

a magic spell to—

By Jenna Tobias