Fish
Shtick
Fuzzy TIFFs of fish stiffs, six megs thick
blurry blocky
pixels—
icky pics to fix, or nix.
Snip an ichthy helix,
add growth
gene mix,
coax that recalcitrant DNA
into Fish Plus superfish
big finny
pixelfish
designed to ply transgenic seas,
to breach in spray of
electron spume.
Fish Plus makes nice fish sticks,
lip-smacking e-fish
and microchips—
serve piping hot on Zip disks
with parsley, rice, and
gene-spliced lemon
and a bowl of nucleotide soup.
--Tony
Hoffman
(c)1999
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