shimon weinroth - Genetic Thinking

echoing out of the past
72 genes hanging on a chromosome
all vied to make you

some survived
as others died
ghosts of a different era

in pools unremebered
unsung
the victims of selection

elected, became one among many
the struggle goes on
to copy and write the history

shimon weinroth

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