Some species mate, then decapitate…
Finches sing to seduce. Ornithologists
theorize the same song also eulogizes
if produced in a tree.
Unprompted,
my mother told me she loved my father
like a brother.
Some mate for safety, to avoid
sadness, to self-flagellate…
— James Allen Halley from poem Inheritance at Corresponding Periods of Life, at Corresponding Seasons of the Year, As Limited by Sex
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