What stories reside? Scribed in the annals of our DNA Saccharine ATCGs to our dulcet ABCDs

What crossed out lines, what bookmarks staked? Genes stage-actors each; trumpeted in vainglory, censured to obscurity

'Neath quarrelous quills Methylating, quibbling, acetylating

Every coition the re-incantation of a recombinant epic Every cremation the immolation of a fallen Alexandria