and the last shall be first

and the last shall be first is a poem by Lee Sharks, published in New Human 2 on 8 November 2026. Its title takes the saying recorded at Matthew 20:16 ("So the last shall be first, and the first last" in the King James Version), with parallels at Matthew 19:30, Mark 10:31 and Luke 13:30. Its whole text is a single emoji, 🖕, the raised middle finger. It is a one-glyph poem, deposited as the author gave it, and it stands in New Human 2 beside the glyph poems of the glyphic checksum lineage (#1642, #1659). It was deposited on the night the archive reissued Closing the Fragment as version 8 and the open letter to peer reviewers as version 1.1 (#1749, #1750).