ever aware of market values
let us create
convenience
and move beyond
planned obsolescence
to the hybrid which can
not reproduce itself
insure seed sales
do not let them be
fruitful, multiplying
filling the earth with bounty
no, pregnant with death
let them die
unfulfilled
having lost their savor
in the biotechnological process
where once life-giving seed
waited in the fruit
vulnerable to disease, easy prey
to insect and bird
let us reanimate with proteins
infuse with pesticide
let us not question our wisdom
our motives
do not ask us:
what becomes of those
who ingest death?
