There is Only One You

Did you know that I have
a birthmark on my right pointer finger?
I swear it’s shaped like Africa,
I swear.

In India, cows are holy.
In American, cows are lunch.
Did you know that Albert Einstein
suffered from A.D.D,
and the boy who sits next
to me at lunch has a webbed toe?

People ask him if he swims faster.
The answer is no.
Did you know that Vincent Van Gogh
cut his ear off, and sent it to his girlfriend as a gift?
And Martin Luther King got his dream from Gandhi.

Did you know that when you hear a ringing in your ear,
that is the last time you will ever hear that frequency?
And that Hitler could not live with what he had done,
so the last life he took was his own?

Did you know that only one out of every hundred
people was born with hair that is red?
and that Thomas Edison swore that
he heard the voices of dead people?

Did you know that your forearm is
the same size as your foot?
and that the Costa Rican Flying Quetzal
birds are fly in pairs,
so they are never alone?

Did you know that life is beautiful?
Did you know?