Beard Hairs, Poems, and Cookie Crumbs

Is this what you want from a tenant?
Raise your hand or shake your head. Thought so.
But here we are. Similarity

And causation may be the same myth.
That’s as may be. If you’re a life form,
You live to ingest and to extract

What will gag you from what you can use,
Bacterium, fungus, or person,
The same. Chemoautotrophic life

A long time ago learned to compare.
Photosynthesis got on with it.
And so on. But sooner or later,

Something built the first distinctive gates,
And, depending which you sorted through,
You were similar to everything else

That sorted through that gate, in some way,
The same. From there, you only needed
One step backwards to correlation,

Two steps back to causation, the same
Leading on to the same. Now, if you,
Are a mite, you want to find those hairs,

Those crumbs if you’re a roach. And, if you
Are a person, mind in the corner
Of mind, you want to extract those poems.