JUST LIKE YOU

For thousands of billions of days

I was not, yet all the misteps of deep

history led to me, and here I am,

an accident of plate tectonics

and evolution and cosmology.

of uncounted difficult pregnancies

and births and sheer blind luck

multiplied through generations

from the ocean to the savannah

and the taiga and the tundra.

All roads in history lead to me,

and all roads diverge from me,

towards the future where, if

I am lucky, I will be a jawbone

in a glass cabinet, or a subroutine

in an ancestral simulation. For

thousands of trillions of days

I will reverbate, a fading,

never dying echo, just

like you, just like you.

29.11.2023

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