continuously beating cilia

continuously beating cilia

conversation between paramecium and human

p: Why do you call me ciliate?
h: Its your phylum.
p: You forget. Cilia are organelles. Proud and beautiful. Like sperm tails.
h: I sense you from deep within my epithelial cilia.
p: What else have you observed in me?
h: Breathing, eating, dating maybe.
p: I have two nuclei.
h: Let them be as one.
p: Is that sexual?
h: I'm thinking the same thing.
p: I'm removing my outer coating of trichocysts.
h: Oh yes.

Benkay

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