Ego, Ergo Sum

I am the bacteria

Decomposing the landfills

I am the lichen

Holding mountains together

I am the spider

Hunting infectious insects

I am the cosmic dog

Burying dinosaur bones in your backyard

I am the nicotine

Cradling the sanity of smokers

I am the caffeine

Keeping humanity functional

I am the oxygen

Sustaining all combustion

I watched Edison grow up

And gifted him electricity as a

Christmas toy

I babysat Einstein

And suggested that

everything is relative

I hung out with the Beatles

and together tripped

about a Lucy

I sipped tea with Buddha

Both grinning like idiots

with total respect

I was drunk on Sesame Street

I was sober in Babylon

I even lived on Terry Lane

(yes, I know the M-man)

But I was covered with

only newspaper blankets

Openly spewing your words back to you

secretly wishing you good will

Openly begging you for food

secretly recording Humanity’s kindness

I came

I saw

I conquered the

paranoia

cotton mouth

and munchies

I watched Nietzsche murder my father

I saw Rome torture my brother

Yet I am the same badass

who kicked you in the nuts with words

and said fuck you in the same line

I built the world with mathematical equations

I am the powder

that can demolish your track of mundane thoughts

I am drunken regurgitation,

I am poetry,

I am a mirror

I created myself

and I am you