Evolutionen

While you stack coins

            Earth’s daisies are settling on distant    

            Moons,

            Chairs are left pulled out,

            Literacy is visible everywhere

You look

Like you can take a joke

            Here’s one:

            Knock, knock!             -Who’s there?-

            The internet                 -The internet who?-

Early on the idea was to build

A perfect system, or

A utopia of symbols, or

A repository for your mind

(Try not to be stripped of 

The role of the operator,) accept that

            To believe in something like something may come

            Is face of a woman at the museum

With a pistol in her bag, concentrating on a Hilma af Klint

As her daughter goes apeshit for a sec

Is there a place where you live? (Pale Blue Dot)

When you wanted a full element

You made me mine

Unframed and out of common going

Way back to the figure of the figure - a fossil recorded

Every sign in its hard drive and 

It was very doubtful

That the extinct species would ever be found

Only to indicate that the hipbones of a whale,

As the story goes, were for walking a-ground

(Whenever will we come into our gills?)          

We haven't carved muscles for them, yet

The happiest moments are yet to come

When does that stop being something that people say

Or don't say around people of a certain age