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This is called "Twinned."

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As I'm sure most of you know,
the female bees of the hive

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make up 90% of the hive.

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This will be a short
lecture on apiary culture.

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And the worker bees
do all the work.

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The females do all
the work in the hive.

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And there's about
5% that are males

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that are the drones that
basically just eat the honey

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and have one job--

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besides eating honey.

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The females, the workers,
genetically are identical.

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It's like they're just
clones of each other.

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They're all the same.

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If you get one, you know
exactly where it came from.

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What hive it came from.

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I said that once to
a group of scientists

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and they pointed out
that actually, that

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wasn't exactly true, but I've
been saying it for so long

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that I can't stop saying it.

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There's probably somebody
here that knows this also,

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but it's impossible for them
to be genetically identical

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because then they would
die out for some reason.

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But they're very close
to being genetically

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identical, like 9/10 genetically
identical or more, even more.

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So I called this
poem, "Twinned,"

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as if they are identical.

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"Twinned."

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"To exist wholly in
another, seamless, mirrored.

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Think of the hive.

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At each turn, we find ourselves
not a version, not a replica,

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but our whole selves.

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Love, you claim,
comes close to this.

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No space between your words.

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A hand over the other's heart.

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How do you live
with this distance?

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I have you, she
thinks, or I know you.

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But she can never say I am you."

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