Physarum polycephalum lyrics

Physarum fanning out

Its parts rejoining anon

Its transformation ease

Pulsing bits generating

Cytoplasmic genesis had

Dynamic and organized

Strength in pulsing tracts

Seeking food sources near

Like the roots of a tree

Spreading, joining, expanding

Its trails never revisited

Repelled by itself, traces

Its bioelectric motivation

In polar fields of differentiation

No brain is seen, all the same

Nuclei that alone reproduce

There, rest remains repetitious

So cells may have several yet

Their linked autonomy uniform

In an organism, any one still

For slime mold math says

One plus one still is one

What is autonomous is compelling

What is intellect is beguiling