…here thy generations endeth in accord.

I physically resemble my mother
And father and therefore must have been
Adopted, because on my TV screen
The role-children rarely share a feature
With either parent. The fact they’re actors
And I’m not is what makes me misbegot–
A matched world of monitors all 2-shot
The mirror daily where I pray these stars

Come: cancel everyone of us whose names
And clans have sundered human unity
Descend always among daughters or sons
To live still, beyond the Net’s trivia games,
Till their faces cloned shape ours. Family.
From android to ape, we’ll be Thy reruns.

Analysis, meaning and summary of Bill Knott's poem Heritage

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