Monod the Many and the Monad

What is true for E. coli
Turns out not to be always
True for the elephant, too.

The journey goes on and on,
Where it’s been, growing greater,
Where it hasn’t, never less.

For the longest while, it seems
Like one path underlies it,
And then it won’t stop branching,

And then back again, a tree,
A whole forest, a river,
A braided delta, currents

Continuing into brine
Of the singular, trackless
Ocean that goes forever

Until more lands. Everything
Has the same underlying
Principles, and everything

Has its own operating
System, true only for it.
True for one truths are many.