GACT, Intact, Takes No Flack
"One side!" we said,
Sidestepping the dead,
Bypassing familiarly the feckless, and lame;
To become the ones we wisely became.
Crawling, then walking, then deftly surviving
Besting the world by correctly conniving.
No longer pristine, a better machine
One rung, double-bonded with guanine.
Natural selections
Erect the perfections,
And Neanderthals left in the dust
Are flotsam of dry rot, bereft in the rust.
Although a good try, Homo erectus
Is misfired, an aborted conceptus.
We bypass the unclever, sight unseen,
By cleaving, whatever, sweet adenine.
Phylogeny aces in hand
Beat what you’ve been dealt, as planned.
Primordial gills in-folded, now lungs
That breathe air past gums, teeth, and tongues.
Umbilical cords branch away from the herd,
Exiting the stage of Theater of the Absurd.
Neural tube ontogeny is the gasoline--
The match, to light progeny, cytosine.
Tough is genetics
With justice poetic:
Mutations arise, but fall in demise.
No second chance, re-do, or reprise.
Paleoliths envy Mesos’ tools, dog, and provisions,
Neoliths began making executive decisions.
Eugenics pursues domination supreme;
Fourth rung’s a homer, stealing thymine.
Both riches and dearth
Divided the Earth;
Though we measured the years
With extinction’s tears.
New newborns outsmarting the dumb
Via dexterity and opposing their thumbs.
Totipotent winners, we call us,
Sport a deoxyribocell nucleus.
Guanine, adenine,
Cytosine, and thymine:
My advantage becomes your trouble
When my kinked helix is double.
You can’t advance us, outsmart or outdance us
You lack the pH and the homeostasis.
Biochemistry aims for the stars
And evolution is coming for yours.