Noah learned to swim by his first birthday.
Even hold his breath and float on his back.
When he turned ten, animals would walk
Right up to him – birds would perch –
Fish come to the surface.
His adolescence lasted a hundred years.
He took decades to learn carpentry,
Sew sails, master a sextant, cook for many.
Noah loves being a bachelor
In this violent, decadent time
Of mass shootings and wickedness.
So, he married late, had three sons
As an old man. Took on a great adventure
Before dying from natural causes.
It was baby Noah who gave everything away.
Precocious, joyful, ready to explain everything.
He measured his young life in arms-lengths,
And he saved us all from drowning
And kept us all alive to live family dramas
Until some super volcano wipes the prairies
Clean off the surface of the planet
With waves of hot ash – with hot ash
Making us nostalgic for storms and Noah’s flood.