The Good Poet

Evocative Poetics

The All-Comers

Magic bullets of later 20th Century--still part of the Old West--brought trouble. Conclusions were drawn around sequences of DNA--human genome projects--reduced to fragments in thousands of universities worldwide. No one thought how enzymes, transcription factors, code for DNA, expressing for, then curing disease (of course, its the cellular and molecular processes keeping the body alive). Science had placed its precious data in the hands of, well, anybody--as if earth was an all- comers affair (isn't it though?).