speckled

July 21, 2024 - 274 words

there is a speckle on an egg

the egg is from a chicken the chicken made this egg in a day

a chicken has a few dozen organs winding rivers of crimson elixir travelling through

a cell among millions this chicken too

the cell has a few dozen organs phospholipid bilayer transport you

an array of proteins strands and ladders storing who


the speckle is watched by someone as complex as you

"that fucking speckle it's ugly, shoo"

in your hometown homogenous all the way through

the sprawling roads directly between you

a growing metropolis connected to

a greater system 1,000 identical states of people the same as you


i look into the sky

a tail of a billion stars right next to

another trailing spiral glowing yellow and blue

they pull at the sky dragging it into


there is a speckle it's a star

the star is from a nebula the nebula made this star in ten million years

the sky has a few quintillion speckles unfathomable pillars of golden hue

you must think that they have planets too

a planet indistinguishable from you that fucking speckle

is it too different from you?


if the sky is watching your every move 20 billion galaxies

all watching you

if you are so concerned about a speckle something not like you

then forget yourself you've got nothing to lose

forget the speckle and remember this

you are not exactly equivalent

to what you think is fully typical

you are a speckle do not forget

do not be cruel and do not be shit

the speckle is closer to you than you'd like to admit

Written by Kat. Thank you for reading.