What do genes mean?
Do they wipe the slate clean?
So that no blame
Attaches to our name?
Because they make us do the same
Again and again and again and again?
The same as our fathers, or our mothers?
Or our sisters, cousins, aunts
Uncles and brothers?
And more distant ancestors
Backwards through time
As far back as the primeval slime?
Does it matter at all
That everyone could be
Two percent neanderthal?
Or that a banana shares some genes
With my Auntie Elsie?
I eat bananas but not Auntie Elsie,
So does this mean that I
Am uniquely free?
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