For Rene to Meet a Guy Worth Her Lifetime

by John Grey

All it would take

is a large rotating fiery cloud

of interstellar dust and gas

accelerated by shockwave,

then contracting,

from more shock,

this time a nearby supernova,

into a ball of fire

while larger fragments of hot debris

clump together into planets,

spend five and a half billion years cooling,

and, on one of these new worlds,

chemical reactions spawn nucleobases,

amino acids,

primitive forms of life

that slowly,

over many more millions of years,

evolve into three or four

decent, hard-working,

marriageable young guys

standing at the bar,

sipping martinis

that they almost spill

when you walk in.

This is where patience comes in.