There is no Plan A

There is no Plan A

First there was sunlight and bedrock and ocean,
And acids amino, all churned in a dance –
When somethings were randomly formed in that potion
Of nutrient flow in a soupy expanse.
They hadn’t a thought or a want or a notion,
They hadn’t the know that they’d barely a chance;
They had no creator to watch with devotion,
So where could they go, and just how to advance ?
But networks were working and systems in motion
Which favour and grow and compete and enhance –
And so, life is life – a fluky explosion,
A spawny crescendo to blind happenstance.

Yes, I know I put an extra ‘e’ in the title of the picture above, but now it’s so much easier to say ! Interestingly, I’m not the only one, though there is some debate over which letter should represent that extra schwa:

Animalacule (both singular and plural) yields 1 screen (at twenty returns per screen)
Animalecule produces 3 screens – this one is my favourite, as it could mean “animated molecule”
Animalicule turns up six screens
Animalocule generates just 9 entries in total
Animalucule scores a measly 8 hits
Animalycule strikes out completely – though that’s before this page goes live, of course, which will increase the result to one.