This I Know

This I Know

The soil of upstate New York 
is nourished with my ancestors 
bone and sinew broken down 
persisting in root and branches. 

That I shed blood and tissue 
to create a copy of myself 
incubated him in a public library 
fed him books and songs so he sings 
Hamilton to his graphic novels. 

This fleshy husk is finite 
HydrogenCarbonOxygenNitrogen 
a kindness the universe lends us
that will return to stardust and soil.

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