In case of danger, the sea cucumber is divided into two:
gives himself a meal in the world,
and the other escapes.
splits of a sudden ruin and salvation,
in fine and premium, in what was and what will be.
In the middle of his body a chasm opens
with two foreign banks immediately.
On a death, the other life. Here
despair, confidence.
If there is a balance, he flat buildings.
If there is justice, here it is.
die as necessary, without overstepping.
grow what is needed from what you saved.
Yeah, we know we divide in two.
But only in body and broken whisper. In
body and poetry.
On the one hand the throat, the other rice, rice
a lightweight, already suffocated.
Here a heavy heart, there non omnis moriar,
three little words, only three flight feathers.
The abyss does not divide us.
The abyss surrounds. Wislawa Szymborska
[autotomy is the ability of some animals to lose a body part or of self-mutilation. Is used as a defense strategy, leaving a non-viable (a limb or tail) to the predator. While the party continues to contract abandoned by distracting the predator, the prey is free to escape. The truncated part is bound to grow.]