Who was correct, and that’s not the half of it.
Sex is a bafflement, to students of it,
Uncertain why life forms have or haven’t it.
It can come as simply as gene-mingling yeast,
Or turn ridiculously elaborate
As plant species dioecious and monoecious
In one life, or as genital counterfeits.
There’s no absolutely convincing reason
Any life should try sex and not simply split
The way all lives managed for billions of years,
As most one-celled organisms manage it,
As somatic cells still do, even in whales,
And what makes this accident so persistent?
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