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Beam Me Up Gently, Please
by Leland Waldrip → (All Poetry by Leland Waldrip)
  
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Sperm and eggs are no longer the only types of cells that can be used in reproduction.


Now double helix of chromosomes
Can be propagated from somatic homes!
This breaking news is yet another plank
Of evidence for evolution’s high rank

In life’s relentless drive for avenue.
Before, like water, seeking lower venue,
Now, like electrons in silicon path,
Chaperoned by science and higher math.

Is biology changed with these findings?
Will science, ethics get new unwindings?
No. Life reproduction, as we know the craft,
Simply adds to sex, skills of dna graft.

Next step in this breathless chain
Of progress in the bionic plane,
Could be an intracellular grafting fight,
Over genes being spliced left and right.

Will dna engineering resemble TV function,
Dna shattered in pixel-like reduction,
Subsequent reassembly in designer tone,
Here a piece added, there gone?

If so, life, full circle, has haunting refrain:
Lonely molecules joined for symbiotic gain,
Now systemic dna is broken apart —
And deftly reconstituted, a la carte!


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 Reviews of "Beam Me Up Gently, Please"
Reviewed by A PAX
Reviewed on May 24, 2003
LOLOLOLOLOL

BRAVO

lol

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on May 24, 2003
A pleasure to read!!

Reviewed by Dove (Reader)
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
Intresting theary...Brilliantly expressed..

Peace,
Dove

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
Very impressive how you combine technology info and poetry with rhythm and rhyme no less;-) Bravo!A pleasure to read!

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
Excellent and creative piece so interesting
Peggy

Reviewed by Nicole Davis Vergara (Reader)
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
Excellant Work Leland!!!! Makes one wonder, ponder and think as to what we have become and JUST where are we headed! Bravo!
~Nikki~

Reviewed on May 23, 2003
i love the meter and rhyme in this outstanding *scary* write...science fiction is becoming science FACT...we don't need to be messin' where God's been messin'...or we're gonna be IN a mell of a hess. :) ((((HUGS)))) and love, karla. :)

Reviewed by Sara Wadington (Reader)
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
Excellent and Very thought provoking poetry!Awesome what can be done, learning more everyday...welcome to the future! yep... beam me up~~:)

Reviewed by La Belle Rouge (Reader)
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
Scary isn't it! Love the flow in this.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
Scary too.

Reviewed by Paul Berube
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
Leland, very well written. The world moves at such a fast pace that most technologies tend to pass us by without our awareness. We become obsolete at birth. I wonder, will teleportation ever become reality. That's enough thinking for today. Beam me up Scotty.

Reviewed by Jeff Alu
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
Great, great, great!

Reviewed by Christine Morell
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
You make my brain work hard here. A very thought provoking, outstanding poem.
Chrissie

Reviewed by Lisa Hilbers
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
This is an amazing write,,very well done! Lisa


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