#236 This Organic Heart

And against all the odds

this organic heart of mine beats

I was a chance birth

Hey,

we all were.

The odds of my strands of DNA

Expressing themselves in my particular way

To lead to me, the person standing here right now today

Man, it makes me shudder.

And then, all life has thrown at me so far

The stresses

the pains

the heartbreaks

the actual, physical dangers: like cars or lightning.

Or older brothers.

And I've needed blood in my muscles

and I've needed blood in my brain

because I need ENERGY

to survive.

And, sometimes, to run.

So it has worked hard

On a not very efficient system

With a user who has read the manual

but refuses to follow any of the instructions

And, against all the odds

this organic heart of mine beats

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