Otra Vez

El ocho
didn't believe in re-incarnation

but the higher ups
or the lower downs

whichever
you prefer

preferred that el ocho
come back to life again

and so
they brought him back

in the form
of a millipede this time.

In a previous life
el ocho had been

a centipede
though he of course

was unaware of that existence---
yet he had always favored

more than
two boring feet