Biggest Rusty Picture and You

An oxygen atom that united with iron to form rust
might have been part of you,
excreted on a laugh.
It might have been in an ancient drop of passion.
Perhaps it sat on the tongue of the first human
to pronounce the first word
… in the beginning.

It,
like every one of the of trillions of atoms
in every cell of your body,
has,
like you,
always been part of everything.
What will it say about you
when it talks with the other atoms of rust
tearing apart the fibers of steel
that was so arrogant about its strength?

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”From the stars have we come. To eternity shall we pass,
at times as mighty oaks, but mostly as grass,
always both energy and mass,
whether part of mountain or a fart from a dung beetle’s ass.”
Dartwill Aquila

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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.