some say that there was a quickening,
and that the Earth’s core bubbled and burped to release the egg,
and that the soft, brittle egg cracked to release the worm -
the double worm of two entwined in one -
to let it slither out and go underground,
to disperse through all elements and up through the aether,
burrowing down and emerging up at the same time.
but the sun and rocks and stars know that there was radio even before that,
and nuclear waste (among other things) will go on to tell our more-than-human successors of the future,
that there will still be radio, even then.