Chimeras

We got a hybrid car when the roof of our old 
car started leaking. At first we weren't sure how
we'd like the hybrid, but we save so much on gas
now. It quietly shifts from gas to electric propulsion,
until you speed up or drive up a steep incline. 
There are so many hybrids in the world, besides,
each one displaying the mixing of different parts. 
The mythical chimera was part lion, part goat, 
part dragon and snake, wandering the fields 
and snacking on cattle. A hero  climbed up 
on the winged horse Pegasus (formed 
from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa), 
and shot it down from up high. Then as now,
anything of mixed nature was feared, named
impure, though they were often born from all 
manner of mingling: gods with their siblings, 
gods as bulls or swans with mortal girls. 
Don't you wonder if some of that line
still remains in us? Microchimeric fetal cells 
burrow into mothers' blood, marrow, liver,
skin. Human brain cells have been turned
into neural chimeras in the brains of rats.
We are always already many, and not just one.