© 2014 by Ali Znaidi

Ali Znaidi (b. 1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia, where he teaches English. He graduated with a BA in Anglo-American Studies in 2002 from the University of Sfax, Tunisia. He writes poetry and has an interest in literature, languages, and literary translation. His work has appeared in various magazines and journals worldwide. He authored four poetry chapbooks including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon's Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press, 2014), and Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014). Links to his published and forthcoming works can be found at ALI ZNAIDI.

"apoptosis" was published in Stride Magazine (UK).

apoptosis

     & if there was no programmed cell
death
     would that mean there was something else
like
     uncontrolled self-destruction, because
there
     are some people who are not well-
verse(ed)
     in apoptosis, & their
sense
     of destruction is only governed by
excesses/
     exorbitance, & this is what draws them
     into the orbits of
extremism
     & those orbits could be their cemeteries,
     because extremism is not well-versed in

apoptosis,
                 that magnetic theory of
                                                  survival.