David Antin - self definition as Euglena (neither plant nor animal)

from Q&A at UPenn accessed at
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Antin.php

UPenn student:
"Are you a poet, do you intend to be a poet, um, do you think about your own categorization, or how do you categorize yourself?"

David Antin:
"When i think of myself, which is not as much as all that, and not as necessarily so frequently, what comes to mind is something i learned in biology that there is a microorganism called a euglena. And a euglena has chloroplasts which allows it to absorb solar energy and turn it into metabolic energy and material, so that it ingests like a plant.

It also has a whip-like attachment that is called the flagella. And this flagella allows it to whip around and capture prey.

My question is about the euglena is it a plant or is it an animal and i don't know which it is, and neither do the biologists know what it is, and i have always regarded this as my identity."