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More than DNA
Where I come from is no easy question
The answer even more complicated
For I am so much more than my ancestry
I was born in the land of the free
yet my soul is old, from foreign lands
I queue, apologize for apologizing, yet
my bluntness borders on breathtaking
A cuppa solves all the world’s problems
So do many shot glasses of ice cold vodka
I come from generations of stiff-necked people
Stubborn, willful, unyielding, even unto death
my race is my religion, I bow before no man
Poets, painters, scientists, innovators precede me
So many geniuses struck with the artist’s disease
I was not spared their fate, I just know to live better
Eccentric, eclectic, experimental, educated, earnest
are just a few words that describe my inheritance
So are manic, melancholy, melodious, magnanimous
If I perished tomorrow, what would be my legacy?
A survivor, mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend
My words, force of will, devotion to absolute truth
will be remembered of me -I ask for nothing more.
The answer even more complicated
For I am so much more than my ancestry
I was born in the land of the free
yet my soul is old, from foreign lands
I queue, apologize for apologizing, yet
my bluntness borders on breathtaking
A cuppa solves all the world’s problems
So do many shot glasses of ice cold vodka
I come from generations of stiff-necked people
Stubborn, willful, unyielding, even unto death
my race is my religion, I bow before no man
Poets, painters, scientists, innovators precede me
So many geniuses struck with the artist’s disease
I was not spared their fate, I just know to live better
Eccentric, eclectic, experimental, educated, earnest
are just a few words that describe my inheritance
So are manic, melancholy, melodious, magnanimous
If I perished tomorrow, what would be my legacy?
A survivor, mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend
My words, force of will, devotion to absolute truth
will be remembered of me -I ask for nothing more.
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