How believable is a story like “the cold equations”? what examples from the story make you think this?

c he talks about the us lives lost.

what was the

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can

line 5 is one of them idk the other one