The Broken Mold

So I made the perfect person

Just a truly

Altogether

Perfect human being

And then I thought

I heard someone say something

Like, I thought somebody was like--

Hey God

But I hadn’t really

Created anybody else yet

So it was weird

But I was like--

Oh maybe I created someone

And forgot about it

So I turned around

And when I did

I hit the mold

With the perfect human in it

And down it goes

To the--

Well, I had just made the ground

And so it hit the ground

And shattered

Oh, I was so upset

You can’t imagine

Do you have any idea

How hard it is

To make the perfect mold

I’m not talking about the human

That comes out of the mold

I’m talking about the mold itself

Once you have that

Making perfect people
Is a cinch

Then I remembered

That I had made one person

Before the mold broke

And she was just sitting there

On the counter

And I thought--

Okay, now what do I do?

I could use the perfect person

To make another mold

But you know

It’s a chicken and an egg thing

Or rather--

It’s not a chicken and an egg thing

You have to make the mold first

You can’t do it in reverse

You can’t reverse engineer

The perfect mold

Even I can’t do that

And I can make a rock so heavy

That even I can’t move it

So there I am

With the perfect person

And a broken mold

That I broke

After I made the perfect person

And even since then

I’ve been working

At making another perfect mold

But, in the interest of full disclosure,

I kind of got bored with the whole thing

And decided that people didn’t need

To be perfect

To be interesting

In fact, they’re more interesting

If they’re not perfect

So once I’d made Julia Child

I pretty much just said--

That’s fine

That’ll do

We’re good

I mean, do we need millions

Of little Julia Child’s running around

Making delicious food

And gutting poultry?

One is fine

Of course at that point
I didn’t have a sense of time

And mortality

So as far as I knew

Julia Child would live forever

And would likely become

A god on earth

One to replace me

And, you know,

I was fine with that

But then she died

Which didn’t diminish

Her perfect nature

Not one bi

It just meant that I had to

Go back to thinking about

Making another mold

I still haven’t gotten around to it

But once I do

It’s possible humanity

Will make its own Julia Child

Granted, it’ll be pretty hard

Without a mold

But they’ve done some

Impressive stuff, so-

You know

It could happen