My specialty is minding my own business. <br />I can't help it, it's a choice. <br />For example, I'm not really writing this. <br />You, mind-reader, read it, nevertheless. <br />I am not harmless. No, I've a role to play, I'm <br />A link in Nature's game. <br />Somebody eats me (let them try) <br />I eat somebody else-that's the deal. <br />I accept my place in the food chain <br />And, unlike you, prize nearly total amnesia. <br />I just don't get why people want to remember things- <br />Especially the bad stuff-let it, already, go- <br />Memory the chiefest factor of what it means to be you- <br />or probably so. <br />Otherwise you're more or less interchangeable, aren't you? <br />Yes, more or less so. <br />Anyway, it's better not to think. <br />My mind's a blank. <br />I'm a big fan of instinct. <br />So I poke my nose here, I poke my nose there, <br />amidst hula-grass, <br />Bringing...<br /><br />Morgan Michaels<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sea-turtle/
