What a Creature You’re a Part of Faking

There’s a scene in a kids’ cartoon
In which a.bunch of tiny gnomes
Assemble into a monster,

As good a figure as any
For the absurd monstrosity
That’s the tower of humanity,

This unfathomably massive
Assemblage of individual,
Foolish gnomes, grown terrifying

As long as all coordinate.
When the monster collapses, gnomes
Tumble, spray, and sprawl everywhere,

Lacking any true cohesion,
Glue, multicellularity.
But while it works, it is fearsome.