**Over and Over | Mathias Nelson

I came from
a man’s penis
a little fish
who won the race
to the gleaming white egg.

Too bad life isn’t the same
since I’ve become a human
never even reaching the
finish line.

I’ve heard other race winners say
that at the end there is a white light
perhaps one day I’ll see it
crack the shell
and end up back in this
hell.

Until then I’ll move at my own pace
lazy fat growing round the waist
the slower I go
the longer I avoid
the reunion

like going back to high school
years later
to see all of those
disturbed grins.

I think
who really wins?
Then I hear the deep echoing laughter
of the joke the Gods played
on me.

**first appeared in "Zygote in My Coffee" - Print Issue 3