Mendel's Catastrophe

The artichoke's organic,
the chicken's barley-fed,
our Mendel's avocados grow
on trees he thoroughbred.

Biotics here are macro,
there's nil that is impure-
from soil to stove to tabletop,
it's primogeniture.

The fish that's swimming in our tub
is tagged Quadruple-A;
the herb roots sprouting on the floor-
don't touch, they're crudités.

Our nourishment's holistic 'cause
we're skilled in vivisection;
my husband won't buy hybridized
for fear of cross-infection.

It's true we bio-engineered
the kids as Gen-X clonies-
but bones like ours should be preserved
for full-blown future phonies.

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Biography

Terese Coe is a US-based poet. She has been published widely and her work has recently appeared in The Formalist, Leviathan Quarterly (UK), First Things, Verse Daily, The New Formalist (in an ebook), and The HyperTexts, among others.