GACT, Intact, Takes No Flack

"One side!" we said,

Sidestepping the dead,

Bypassing familiarly the feckless, and lame;

To become the ones we wisely became.

Crawling, then walking, then deftly surviving

Besting the world by correctly conniving.

No longer pristine, a better machine

One rung, double-bonded with guanine.

Natural selections

Erect the perfections,

And Neanderthals left in the dust

Are flotsam of dry rot, bereft in the rust.

Although a good try, Homo erectus

Is misfired, an aborted conceptus.

We bypass the unclever, sight unseen,

By cleaving, whatever, sweet adenine.

Phylogeny aces in hand

Beat what you’ve been dealt, as planned.

Primordial gills in-folded, now lungs

That breathe air past gums, teeth, and tongues.

Umbilical cords branch away from the herd,

Exiting the stage of Theater of the Absurd.

Neural tube ontogeny is the gasoline--

The match, to light progeny, cytosine.

Tough is genetics

With justice poetic:

Mutations arise, but fall in demise.

No second chance, re-do, or reprise.

Paleoliths envy Mesos’ tools, dog, and provisions,

Neoliths began making executive decisions.

Eugenics pursues domination supreme;

Fourth rung’s a homer, stealing thymine.

Both riches and dearth

Divided the Earth;

Though we measured the years

With extinction’s tears.

New newborns outsmarting the dumb

Via dexterity and opposing their thumbs.

Totipotent winners, we call us,

Sport a deoxyribocell nucleus.

Guanine, adenine,

Cytosine, and thymine:

My advantage becomes your trouble

When my kinked helix is double.

You can’t advance us, outsmart or outdance us

You lack the pH and the homeostasis.

Biochemistry aims for the stars

And evolution is coming for yours.