Venter's World Man

By Rick Marriner

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Plot me a genome, sequence me a life.

Skim cream from the gene pool, please map me a man

Sell access to perfection, slow to age,

long to love, never to fade in color,

Entrepreneurial Bio-med Man!

Author's Note

This immature Iambic Pentameter is a folly of a poem to mark note of Dr. J. Craig Venter and his quest to privately map the 3 billion chemical units that make up Human DNA. The author extrapolates satirically and with an eye for free market economics in which the businessman-biochemist will one day use his discovery to manufacture and perfect people for the highest bidder.

 

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