30 Poems in 30 Days: 100% Natural (28/30)

Posted by Daniel Stout on Thu 28 Jun 2007 at 11:37 PM

28 June 2007

100% Natural
by Daniel R Stout

In the test tube
genes mix and swirl
the parents
decide by proxy
the attributes
and proclivities
of this
their child
to be.
Hundreds
of choices.
Default
configurations
are cheapest,
but who wants
another Brad?
Fish gills?
Canine teeth?
All available
but it costs extra
and despite
hundreds
of thousands
of successful
hatchings
there’s a certain
freakishness
about
interspecies
cross-pollination.
But 100% natural
genetic material
can’t be denied.
It’s the quality
that counts.

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