The Genetic Book of the Dead

Richard: Poetry is an imaginative metaphor designed toe to make one think. We spend most of our lives surrounded by other human beings, and we interact with them in very ordinary ways. All living creatures carry around in themselves, in their genes, a detailed description of the worlds in which their ancestors lived. And you yourself are a gigantic city, a megalopolis of cells, each one of which is a town of bacteria. If when you look at somebody, you realize that, then immediately your seeing you. You've stripped away the anaesthetic of familiarity. It's true and always has been true, but which you didn't realize. i think your life is enriched for realizing that