01-18-2026, 10:18 AM
(01-08-2026, 08:05 PM)busker Wrote: Because I was born (Edit 1: Milo)Was just reading the re-write again and I think you should at least try it without any of the line end commas you have. There are so many, they are bothersome and the line ending enough is probably enough
Mother, father, gorgonopsid fawn,
ancestors - I love you all.
Because there is nothing afterward,
before - even so, I was born.
Not a filtered out improbability
of a bone dry statistician god,
but made to be awed
by everything: sludge digesters,
Saturn’s rings,
and Shakespeare,
resolving
into clay
from which I spawned.
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