it happened in china, about fifty years ago,
with a singleton clone embryo,
all very barnacle if you ask me,
but not as bonkers as the story from
moscow by yevgeny zamyatin,
anyway... the soloists were split into three
categories - the ones that made
mental games their signature,
the ones that made animals
their buddies... and the third...
oh the ones who started off like ivan
throwing dogs off the kremlin
                    towers to break their legs?
they're the power people ready to
steal a mongol from a war camp
and un-slit his eyes by cutting off the eyelids.