There is no genius involved

There is no genius involved

I met one once

He was no fun

Barely registered as human

I thought he was me

We all thought we were

In the same time frame

But it was a random

Connection

Nothing to ruffle

My collar

He hung up his skin

Every night

Like the rest of us

Unbuttoned himself

Nothing but a skeleton.

Underneath it all

We are calcium,

Pillars of salt.

He banged on about iron,

Genomes,

Enzymes and splitting the atom,

I tended toward catastrophe.

The power of his grey skull

Cracked like an egg.

He liked a bacon sandwich

I could see the poetry in that.

Neither of us was able

To work out the best way

To meet girls.

I thought he was a genius

He thought I was a drunk

We had a lot in common

When it came to conflict resolution.

We ran haphazardly

Which confused the enemy

They were none too bright.

He developed an algorithm

For thrown bottle evasion

Which was solid enough.

There was no genius involved

Much like poetry,

It was the result of sweat

And application.