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Within our deoxyribonucleotides The science of poetry forever resides. A structure endlessly complex Provides for the necessary effects That move, a creature, One of understanding. love. music. dancing. A chain of polypeptides Pulls us close and confides. Secrets that must never reach a soul Find their way through a hole To our most defining feature That plays for us thought. breath. blood. pleasure. And as we stand staunchly engraved Upon the notion that our paths are paved We find ourselves no more aware That the next day may not be so fair. That the next day might hold a fracture Of the worst possible kind. method. ignorance. disgrace. So as we look upon our latest fling, Or make the world from that which is bought, We are the touch of chance, a fateful wisp. Keep in mind.
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Feb 21, 2011
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