In an alternate universe you swung at the right pitch
walked down the other block
missed the train and didn't say the wrong thing
to the wrong guy and won the lottery

It all goes like this:

In Universe "B" your mother and father never met
In Universe "C" you are reading this poem in French
and in Universe "D" this poem was never written.

While in Universe "M" it was written in binary numbers.

So it goes.

In Universe "N Prime" you are a mote of dust
caught in the sunlight coming through a bathroom window

In Universe "Alpha 4" there is
no need for bathrooms at all.

There is one alternate Universe where there is no universe.
The big bang was a dud
and the only thing that exist is somehow
the tune to "How much is that doggy in the window"

In that alternate Universe there is no alternate universe
There, you and I don't exist in any form
and poems are never written. Not one in 35 billion years.