CRISPR LOVE


Guest Blogger:
Gary Lee Parker

I cut my genes for you
I cut myself to keep your love
I trim the edges, rough to smooth
I shape my soul to fit your glove

I Infect myself for you
I change my mind to rise above
my baser state, the more uncouth
allotments, lop the riffraff of

my riffraff spirit’s residue
I clip the wings of Eden’s dove
I cut my genes for you, in truth
I cut myself to keep your love

I lose myself for you
I lose myself inside your need
in your X-Acto blade demands
For what I ought to be

Carefully I cut for you
my garden’s code I strictly weed
my garden’s code I prune by hand
and burn the cheap debris

my unruly runners hewn
I hew the gnarled knobs and seed
my soul anew, each woven strand
unzipped, I craft a better tree

I cut my genes for you
I cut my soul to rise above
I change myself, your fears to soothe
I cut myself to keep your love
evict myself to keep your love
 eject myself to keep a love
you are unworthy of