a study of our family
and its genealogic scope
sheds light on how we got here
and who we are, i hope
hard to believe our forebears
birthed children through the ages
until down to me at last
begat of serfs and kings and sages
there were knights and lords and ladies
even earls, a marquess or two
viscounts, Indians, and sheriffs
worldly explorers through and through
some were un-wedded
some were beheaded
some drawn and quartered
some well-rewarded,
some died in the tower
some wielded great power
some lost now to time
some worked to death in factories
a few were the thriving kind
each one an accident of history
brief islands of DNA
passed on through sex unto the next
’til ‘poof’ here we are today
wouldn’t want to invite ’em all
to dinner on any one night
but i’d like to invite the notables
the notorious, the somewhat bright
then we’d drink to our common family
dance in life’s teeming streams
celebrate our ancestral gifts
born of stardust and ancient dreams
Brooks Bradbury 
😊💕
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