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mouth

today my heart was cold. you asked
do i love you? and after two years, not
today. your face seemed suddenly
unfamiliar. your half-moon smile,
your lips curling
like petals to keep or reveal
your pollen, your love. your
wrong everyword.

.inner.compositions.

"
The folding-up of a protein occurs at more than one level. [...] Quaternary structure can be directly compared with the building of a musical piece out of independent movements, for it involves the assembly of several distinct polypeptides, already in their full-blown tertiary beauty, into a larger structure. The binding of these independent chains is usually accomplished by hydrogen bonds, rather than covalent bonds; this is of course just as with pieces of music composed of several movements, which are far less tightly bound to each other than they are internally, but which nevertheless form a tight "organic" whole.
"
{Hofstadter, Douglas R.>> Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid >> pg 525}

So it would seem that the hipster gene is encoded in us!
And perhaps, even more importantly, all of us!
I speak of nothing more than the forces behind a mixtape, recorded and labelled, being an aspect of our cells, permeating like a young music note, lost from the herd, into the forests of ribosomes and rivers of cytoplasm.

Furthermore, it works to resonate with us that we are the manifest vibrations of high and low polypeptides, and their lapping waves, wetting our appetites under a lunar strobe light blinking at something close to the tempo of a lover's footsteps crossing a dancefloor.

It sheds new perspective on the mixtape soundtrack of our lives:
for all the time we spend seeking out songs,
we are comprised of the very greatest hits collection that we are seaching for.