With you, I am a scientist. I could
Identify you in an instant, branding
You as a native species (notwithstanding
Your fresh taxonomy -- invasive, you'd
Assume my space.) I wonder if I should
Remember more, but even here I'm standing
Abashed (rebooting) clasping understanding
And napkins in my hands. You understood
(I wouldn't do that / Either), wiped my chin
And supernumerary brain, then slept
A wink. My lab analysis went in
One eye and out the next, and then we wept
And peer-reviewed each other's output. When
It dried, we laughed about the ones we kept.
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