We're Basically Books (I saw Humanity in those Sugar-Covered Sticks)

Did you know?

All living things are based on variations of a genetic code.

Four different nitrogen bases arranged in extremely long sequences, and "read" in to you and in to me.

Language produced us.

What if the words you said made people come out of them?

What if they filtered through a massive cloud and then feet fell on the floor, and later a brain and arms?

If you were born in a place where people shot each other in the head, you would have shot somebody in the head.

Hypothetical murder.

HEAT: breaks the bonds that join complementary strands.

Your head is polymerase.

When you read, a DNA strand is threaded through your mind and, little by little, a massive creature is built inside. This creature can be impossible but it exists in there. DNA synthesis. The code for creatures.

I saw a lake that has high salt concentrations.

The salt had formed ornate, palace-like shapes that reached skyward.

They almost looked like coral reefs. Almost looked alive.

But nope, they were nothing but highly complex patterns of chemicals.

But then, so are we.

Out of the clouds.