One half

For all you know

I could be as

promiscuous as some of our split-GAL4 lines*

With different men

I light up new corners of my soul.

Maybe I am still looking for

my soul or maybe I

dunno what it’s like

to feel cosy in my skin?

You may want to pause a bit

And look back at me on a dimmed night.

Do you think,

I exist without you?

Do you think I exist without

the thousand other

halves, the men in my earlobes

and heart and

between my legs?

 *2 split-GAL4s make one GAL4 - a functional enzyme that can be made to do cool things - for example, light up neurons in fruit-fly brains. But, one half-GAL4 can do nothing without the other. Some of these are promiscuous, and have not just one partner.