I dunno, mang. I just wrote a poem about "the origin of verse" where I said that I wrote poems by following a process similar to a sourdough starter and which involves reading poems out loud in order to entice little poem-sprouts to my sweet starter (piece of paper, natch). (Because, by the way, when you read a poem out loud, it leaves crumbs, you see?)

Of course, maybe someone has generated this exact same thought/metaphor - can't say they didn't - but I do doubt that I will ever run across another manifestation of such a thought/concept/process.

Also, you know we've only named like, 15% of all the species that we estimate to exist on this planet, right?

I mean, sure, all stories are the same story and all poems are about love or death, and if it's about love then it's about death so all poems are just about death, but that's taking a really, really zoomed-out view. Like if you take the two most drastically different looking humans you can find and look at them from really far out, they're gonna look pretty much the same. Two arms, two legs, one head, torso, (assuming neither is an amputee of any sort), stuff on the head, maybe some hair, nipples and butts. I can reduce any two humans to that, and then yea they're super similar and boring. The devil's in the details.

It's the specifics that you need, mang. It's the specifics that set everything apart. Now I'm gonna go read kb's comment, I'm looking forward to it.

Edit: better source for all stories are the same story but less reductive