Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

And it's this way that I make it out to be:
   No fathers, mothers, countries, climates -- none;
Not Adam was responsible for me,
  Nor society, nor systems, nary one:
A little sleeping seed, I woke -- I did, indeed --
  A million years before the blooming sun.

I woke because I thought the time had come;
  Beyond my will there was no other cause;
And everywhere I found myself at home,
  Because I chose to be the thing I was;
And in whatever shape of mollusc or of ape
  I always went according to the laws.

-- John Davidson, "Thirty Bob a Week"