Arlene Corwin writes

Replication*

Don’t do it! Do not replicate!

We all are influenced. We duplicate.

But you are you,

Creating you anew each time you say or do:

Be true to it!

Each bit that comes from hands or mouth

Must be authentic.

Whatever else a main road to unhappiness,

Impatience, and the opposite of blessedness

(whatever that is.)

There is no other you.

A funny face, untied shoelace,

Your life anomalous

Which no one comprehends.

That’s fine! An understanding

Is not all that it’s made out to be.

We ourselves don’t grasp the each and every,

Do not take it in and don’t quite savvy…

Not everything depends on being canny.

All depends on being you,

True to the soul-whole you were born with,

Born to find, for after all we’re all born blind;

We need to spend the years becoming 

When we’re meant to be, 

Which freshness means originality:

O R I G

          - I N A L - I T                       

And finally, 

Big -Y.

 

*Replication; An exact copy of

Cloning -- Vladimir Petro