Every One

The thing about the first person

Is that they never are the first,

Never were, never even close.

Ok, ok, someone somewhere

Must have used the first first person,

And someone before that, maybe

Immediately thereafter,

Had to have been the first person.

But by the time the first person

Tried joking, Madam, I’m Adam,

It was long past the time no one

Would ever be the first again.

You’re not the second neither, nor

The third, but at least they’re some more.