science and beauty
coexist in symbiosis,
a mutualistic relationship
where each
benefits the other,
like a bee
to a flower,
wherein the bee
creates food stores for its colony
and the flower
is able to reproduce.

people scatter about the earth,
individual collections of cells, tissues, organs, systems,
expending energy
to make their habitat
more beautiful
with words, pictures, sounds, and altruism –
masses of kinetic bodies
throwing themselves into whatever they do
stretching their life expectancy to its elastic limit
to create and destroy and repeat.