Lucky

It should have happened
Might have
Did
At just the right time
After it made little difference
Before anyone cared

I got to be born because
My father’s scored high on a test
Ripped up his tailgunner’s orders

Bobby Kennedy lived because
Sirhan Sirhan liked movies
Hit a matinee

The dinosaurs survive because
A comet clips the K-T meteorite
Misses Yucatan

And there’s no homo sapiens
No Voyager 1 invited aliens
No AIs

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