The Transformed Bacterium

About biofilm.

Adam sits alone

sweating its words 

which spread into the world.

.

And Adam smells 

and decodes the fragrances,

messages, yes.

.

Adam enumerates.

"The people are here!"

one day Adam proclaims.

.

Now, it's time to

slip away. The contract

built into it, 

.

like death

but not really. I will never move again.

I will be a brick in the fortress.

.

One day we will stand tall

all performing a duty

We will rise out of the sea.