Monday, September 23, 2024

tracing our roots

i drool
into a glass vial
and send my spit in to check my
DNA
at the ancestry
company
to see who i might be related
to, both
currently and down
through the ages.
a man in Finland comes up
from the paleolithic period.
they find a cave
drawing of him
that looks just like me.
and beside
him is a woman holding
what looks to be an iron
skillet
about to clobber him 
in his shaggy head.
his dirty feet seem to be
resting on a coffee table
of some sort.
it all makes sense now.

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