Primordial Soup

Evolution is a theory with gaps, can be refuted

He dipped his spoon into
Alphabet soup
stuck it in his mouth
and flipped the newspaper page

He dipped it again
his eye turned for him
to look 
contained in the spoon

white pasta letters 
floated therein
and saw the word 
a*s

he’d seen a and at
not a concern
but a*s 
never before

he dismissed the word 
as a moment
of fluke

turned back to the page 
and read it some more

swirled the soup
to scramble the mix
dipped the spoon in
pulled it out slowly again

And saw the word 
prose
floating on red

Overcome with some awe,
what are the chances
what is the point,
what kind of genie
a*s embled 
the letters
of this primordial soup?

He lay down the spoon 
back in the bowl
thought about the article 
he had just read 
explaining to him
how Life had begun:

Amino acid solution 
rich, so delicious,
methane, ammonia
complex flavors, 
organic, 
yum yum!

Self-replicating molecules
all by themselves
like genies assembled
in sequence 
the DNA code

all Life began
like an alphabet soup

“Besides stardust
and dust, 
we are descendents of 
these, . . .”
he pondered in awe

Oceans of Earth
eons ago 
cooked and 
created

Us, 
out of 
primordial soup

Reviews

[Skye]

It is extraordinary! Every time this realization hits, it's a little more pronounced. I love the story, and I love the context. Very nice.