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
This manuscript vanishes before it