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
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