A View from an Organelle

What has been observed

Of St Benedict’s

Rule goes for all rules—

They survive only

If the exceptions

Immediately

Follow. Flexible

Orders, like junk-strewn

Genomes, have a chance

To mutate in time;

Facultative rules

Of development

Have a chance to bend

To the circumstance.

A successful game

Will be specific

And provisional.

Lives themselves are games

Or models for games,

Ancestral to games—

First, a boundary

Around the vortex,

And then the inside

Rules vs. outside.

All cells are porous;

Ideologies

As well. Successful

Examples handle

Pores elegantly.

True competition

Roars on among whole

Games, however, not

Among organelles.