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Here is the poem I shared about in the video:
Unusual Genetics, Confirmed With a Lifetime of Study
I’m convinced I came from a stale egg--
slow to grow, just a little weird,
and full of wonder.
Part goldfish with short term
short term memory,
I also possess amoebic qualities:
effortless capacity to enfold
and absorb whatever comes close.
As crow, I laugh easily with friends
and every sunset feels sacred.
Strands of golden retriever DNA
embed me with contentedness--
kibble and a kind hand easily bartered
for love beyond rationality.
With my pachyderm memory, I mourn hard.
From life trails pierced and sewn through my ventricles,
artifacts remain like litter
I visit in the quiet of dawn and dusk
and sweep into corners in the hours between.
But it is the daffodil in me
that lives below the surface so much of the time
and yearns to shatter the walls of despair.
~Suzanne Dudley
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