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A Poem for Mushrooms: Fruiting Bodies
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A Poem for Mushrooms: Fruiting Bodies

A fruiting body

But it isn’t a fruit

Mushrooms are such a wild hoot

Stir fried, it’s so good with veggies

It’s not a vegetable

It’s more like an animal

But it’s not that either

The fruiting bodies appear in wet weather

Then seemingly disappears into the ether

They come in magic and mundane

They come in Chaga, Chicken of the Woods, Reishi, Turkey Tail and Lion’s mane

Lots about mushrooms was studied by Beatrice Potter

But they didn’t want to take her seriously

Because she was a woman

And worse

An amateur

To this day even those who give her credit

Gaslight her on the side

As though the men who gave her a chance to study

Should have been a better buddy

And protected her from the inevitable

Pain of being treated with chauvenism

By male ego games

But painting rabbits and ducks

Isn’t all she did

And I think it’s good the question the establishment’s bid

Because other wise history repeats

So remember the Movie Miss Potter

And all they Omitted

To make it seem a romance

Rather than a woman lay scientist

Who first discovered things that men only later

Confirmed

Because hearing it from an amateur

From a woman

They squirmed

Mycelium create electrical synapses like your brain

Myco friends can communicate a language

Beyond our understanding

With electrical spikes like synapses

When their message message sends

That have the capacity to transmit across quite distant terrain

But please don’t use to it to entrain

To interface machine brain interface

Id rather an amyloid than become an android if I had to pick

But believe w can stick

To win win solutions

That have real kick

When undo the causes and the roots

We can find healing that fruits

Our organic divinity

In our humanity

Arising

Beyond insanity

But don’t eat amanita

Unless you want to drink a reindeer’s pee

Cause if you have that way

They’ve processed it through to eliminate the toxins

Through their sassy reindeer kidney

And remember the pluripotent potential of LSD

And how it’s been used by agencies with letters three

Let discernment and wisdom and intuition guide thee

What’s right for you might not be right for me

But all of us are sill one human-divine-love-filled Family

I know for me, I’m gonna stick with stir fry

Sobriety

People already think I’m drugged

When I’m just being me

When I used to have a bitchute channel more than once they saw my joy

And asked what I was on

But the truth is I’m just high on my soul

And that’s why I’m dancing down the street

Don’t need no LSD to know I’m one with all

And have a ball

Just stretching my arms open wide to the sky

Hugging trees

Greeting neighbors

Listening to birds

And marveling

When I see a fruiting body

And thinking of Nordic reindeer herds

I couldn’t dance without the myceilum

That literally holds up the earth

And I’m grateful

I’m grateful

For all the ways mushrooms can heal

As I invite the goodness of life

To pervade and upgrade

Our organic ascension

So heaven on earth is given birth

And that goofy mushroom

With its mycelial mirth

Smiles as at shrooms out

On the neighbors lawn

And the next day

It is gone

By Alicia Kwon Copyright 2025

https://www.techspot.com/news/97836-scientist-have-developed-living-pc-made-mushrooms.html

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211926

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