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A Noisless Patient Microbiologist
In a laboratory spotless as eternity
he cops a feel on Genesis
and spins a dozen patentable organisms
off before his morning coffee.
Oh, Mother of Glass
Oh, Pyrex Bride, pristine womb crystaline
Will Eden's Landlord at last hit the welfare rolls?
He clapped his waldoes and squealed, "Eureka,
we cracked the mortal genome!"
And the assistants, smug in their green smocks
chortled when he suggested:
"Perhaps an extra cytosine on
chromosome seventeen, I've never liked
mustaches on Italian women."