Evolution
Ariel Hirschhorn ‘22 I want to live everything backwards DQG , PHDQ ,·G JHW P\ QRVH SLHUFHG ZKHQ ,·P HLJKW\ ÀYH barely speaking out a mealy mash of garble till the nose piercing fell out and gabber would turn into words, crudely fashioned, like Adam’s form and I’d learn to count the endless cathedrals: broken down glass and ironwork sticking out like a skeleton assembled without directions I’m learning the names of things I forgot into extinction an orange un-rots on the countertop , JURZ WHQ ÀQJHUV DQG XQJURZ WKHP The world sips and boils down a cosmic broth licking what’s left of yesterday’s teeth I’m a baby with a graduate degree I’m a fetus with the entire contents of the Internet I’m cells of every galaxy I’m a few atoms of God
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