At last. Light all around us, my body a room of lamps, every wick lit as though it were the world’s last birthday. Time is now inside me, transfer and possession, never holding anything back, indifferent to my illegitimacy, disinterested in my grief, pierced with all of my joy. Inside me, a second, better person, furnished with perfect recall—my convict, my warden, my guest, my host.

Replication

Replication

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Benefits of decoupled reproduction

Conception became a third-party interruption

Lineal transplant

Copies in wonderland

If I press into you hard enough, I can make a carbon copy

One man could have millions of children with millions of women

Not everyone is invited to the party of multiplication

Games to be blindfolded, pin the tail on the half-sibling

My womb a piñata, paper donkey, mule

Take a bat to the candy from the sky

Pick it all up before it’s gone, greedy fingers

Re = again, plicare = to fold

Obsolescence of the family every science fiction fantasy

In the pursuit of happiness

Every species is transitional

What are you bringing to the party?

I see my father every time I look in the mirror but I wouldn’t recognize him on the street

Perhaps in a lineup, if I could put my hands next to his, or look at his teeth, like a horse

Honey, can you pick up some eggs on the way home?

Her children are 40, 30, 20, 10, 5, 1

After she dies, her eggs can still be used. A body so quiet

All animals need, directly or indirectly, other animals to die so they can live

Family tree like a virus. Contagion, pandemic, and R0.

Surplus embryos. A dozen twins terminated in vitro. They went back to Galapagos

Each beak would have been slightly different. We want to look into their eyes

But I was asking to be born, every cell alive, every mitosis eating space

I’ve seen what happens when women take up space

Each termination a love letter to space. Abraham and Isaac but without the intervention

The un-transplant

Offshore the body

Outsource the future

Their hundred children apex predators

A moveable feast, each their own calendar and code

Stronger, better, faster. More human than human. Homo replicatus

Each child with a dog inside and a wolf outside

They are winners, survivors. Culture, frozen, implanted, gestated, born, they passed all the tests

Why shouldn’t they grin

Show us their teeth