They go thru flow cells
and return a million read
Weekly poems sent
anonymously to be sequenced
in a massively parallel
batch job
The hits come back
in blinking dots,
ephemeral likes, individual
happy flashes from
bar-coded singlets.
But how to know
when a solitary spot
has read our entire
genome?
Have you binged
on the DNA
of our identity?
Can you tell us
who I are
and
where I are going?
Nov 21, 2015
Nov 21, 2015 at 10:03 AM UTC
They go thru flow cells
and return a million read
Weekly poems sent
anonymously to be sequenced
in a massively parallel
batch job
The hits come back
in blinking dots,
ephemeral likes, individual
happy flashes from
bar-coded singlets.
But how to know
when a solitary spot
has read our entire
genome?
Have you binged
on the DNA
of our identity?
Can you tell us
who I are
and
where I are going?
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