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Millions and millions and millions of people by Jennifer Williams
from Legacy 2000
Millions and millions and millions of people
by Jennifer Williams
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Millions and millions and millions of people,
All made into me,
Piles of genes thrown all through my corners,
A DNA family tree!
A tiny piece of my nose once sat.
On the face of an English courier,
And a bit of my left once graced,
A New York sanitation sorter.
Through Egypt and Checkoslovakia,
Generations passed around shards.
Of what would later color my eyes.
Straighten my teeth, give me my self-regard.
And way back underneath all that stuff,
Behind the curious genetic weave,
A fragment of Adam,
A fragment of Eve.
From only two came millions,
and from millions came me,
all different, all the same,
a DNA family tree
