Just in Case

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Now, as I age, I look back to that first,
that mist from where out-stumbled stubby me;
as much as first light left the CMB,
an egg and sperm said: boy with a big thirst.

For everyone, though relative, the same,
both personal and universal bounds.
One question - what before - leads to the further game:
a variance in a field of lulling sounds.

And as for that other dread boundary,
indefinite yet, though Zeno distance halves,
love invests a faith in lives of progeny -
and then - the hell of it!  Bless all the calves,

and the rivers running by their muddy hooves.
Oh, let the world labour in better grooves.


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The equinox and my last day of self-isolation. It's a hybrid sonnet.

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