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Parallel lives

I.B. Rad

Mostly poetry touches on
the human condition,
love, angst, war, hate, religion, ...
even though, on a cosmic scale,
since the universe
gets along quite nicely without us,
it could just as well chide,
“Everything’s not about you!”
So why then
can’t a leaf
fall from a tree
without intimating
aging and death
or a wave
sweep up on a beach
without erasing someone’s footprint?
Well, to be fair,
Isn’t every species horizon
at least partly bound by its needs?
Don’t birds have territorial disputes
in “our” yards;
and does a spider worry about
spinning its web
in “your” house,
or a tapeworm
show the slightest concern
over human suffering
as contrasted to enjoying
a good lunch?

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