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how to boil an egg

 

How to Boil an Egg

To boil an egg, you’ll need a Universe.
Create it !
Without a Universe, there can be not be an egg.

Within your universe you must create a planet
… call it Earth.
To boil an egg on your new Earth
There must be life.
Create this life !

You’ll need the seas and lakes and oxygen…
Plus flora … fauna…and the coral beds.

The next thing you must fix upon
Is evolution. Invent it !

By then you can relax a while…
Let nature take its course.
The dinosaur will disappear..and….
There-in lurks the origin of Birds !
Your egg is getting closer….

 

…as you emerge from some small swimming cell
Into Amphibian ..and finally into
A creature with four legs that struts the lucious Earth…
You will evolve yourself into a growling thing
…that lives in caves
…and carries stones to fling at birds…
And you will eat raw eggs.

Soon you will tire of this.
As it becomes a chore to hunt for birds each day….so…
Fence them in !
Domesticate the hen !

Make pots and pans , divine a Well…
and dig it !

Invent the heat of fire !… spark stones to make it burn.
It is a wondrous thing !
Place water in your pot and boil.
Put in your egg…you’ll know when it is done
…. by how it floats….or from…
An axiomatic system you have found !

And that is how to Boil an Egg
My friend ! Enjoy it..!

[ for, down the line..there will be boundaries and colonies
you’ll sail your seven seas in search of Spice
that will enhance your Egg…
alas…too soon this lust will render you ,
The hen and egg….all animals on Earth…
as withered , savaged… on a desecrated planet. ]

Kristine Byrne 6th Oct 2014

 

Poems - 2014