The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Evolutionary Logic

We are organisms of islands
sewed in sinew and membrane
while physicists draw cryptics in the sand
we the grand diplomat negotiate truths
to maintain homeostasis between our plurality
striking an emotional detente to reestablish 
the trade and borders that hold our protoplastic
expandings to an identity seldom celebrated that
makes a trusty scaffolding on which to hang masks
that dopamine demands we carefully craft
draped in spent timings and vascillations of esteem
we return from battle with a wheelbarrow of
amputations and spend our days sewing back together
what we never hold to be whole.
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