March 10, 2018 (I was 73)
William Saroyan wrote of fractals
fractal Assyrians the whole
race of them
present in one young
Assyrian barber
in San Francisco in 1932
the whole of them
compressed not condensed in
the barber
He went on to fractalize
the Japanese
from the particular farm
workers he knew
growing up in Fresno one at
a time
perfect representations of
their race
The human race extrapolated
in each person
and in his Armenian uncle
his own troubled people
troubled by nature and the
un-named enemy
that slaughtered so many in
fractalic wars
that man by man were all
mankind
The infinitely complex
pattern self-similar
across divisional and
multitudinous scales
driven by the recursion of
each of us
He explained the human
geometric
forty-some years before the
concept was named
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