You Can Call Me Al

specimen jars descend
on our parts of speech
you dissect me from both sides
of my family tree, from male to
sex to one drop rule
Heisenberg couldn’t boil water
curiosity delayed him
which is all impatience and fear
only the desperate rely
on nomenclatures
which is why i replay with lies
& i am called another name
it is a secret name
you will never hear