I Bet It Isn't This One

Had it not occurred to Life to mutate into the divisions

of the plants and animals – to randomly evolve

into such isolated beings as the avocado and the bird –

might we have preferred that it had introduced

an affable amalgam of the two? Perhaps

two billion other worlds construe this happy

hybrid – each of which by evening will have won

direct collaboration with a sun through apertures much

like our eyes which do not only offer points of view

but photosynthesize – deriving nourishment directly

from the source. Of course, they’d think and speak as well,

and dwell quite amicably with each other. I’d like

to have one as a brother or a friend. Perhaps then

that would end the sense that I’m an isolated interspecies

unity myself. I wonder to what galaxy I truly should belong.

I bet it isn’t this one. I guess I could be wrong.

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