god
a trickster
sacrificed wisdom
sacrificed the sick
sacrificed storms
transforms
the gift of poetry
sells to a company
(a staff member told me)
biohacks
new and improved emendation
tobacco plants into snakes
coffee beans into ice cream
macaques into twin baby girls
drug-resistant strain of covid-19
(just kidding, a staff member told me)
.
god
the company’s genetic designer
hands-on lab work
suite of techniques
disable sequence, snip, or replace it
and a tattoo that urges
(a staff member told me)
create something beautiful
*from “Life Hacks” by Elizabeth Kolbert in The New Yorker, Jan 18, 2021
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