A poet, not a biologist

A poet, not a biologist

Poetry is in my genes

Selfish, not an altruist

The state destroys our dreams

A Ephemeroptera, not a Tardigrada

A quick life is all I need

Bring me the politic armada

On the wall I see the centipede

They fight tooth and nail

Even so, they fail

Because they defend the enemy

Thinking they are stabilizing a legacy

I am an individual, not a slave

I have never signed a social contract

Swimming against the taxation wave

Would rather live in the abstract

I am a poet who loves biology

But this bureaucracy makes me mystify

When I look at my genealogy

I wonder who am I?

Oliver Yeager

11th April 2019