Times Like These Make Me Glad


 
Times like these
make me glad 
that of my twenty six
thousand genes
65% are exactly
the same as the genes
in a banana.
70% are exactly
the same as the genes
in a fruit fly.
The banana blackens
with sugary bruises.
The sacrament turns
starch into glucose.
Entropy is grace.
The fruit fly is happy.
We are all
food.


Photo: a mighty fruit fly, Discover Magazine

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