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Description
this is the sacrifice,
the science, the art:

my body a bridge,

time writ from within me

in series of
nucleotides,

the sequence of strictures,
the slow stop-and-start.

my guilty chromosomes,
remorseless heart.

the steady march
of my ancestors

down my spine:

divide and conquer,
spindle and divide.

Description
this is the sacrifice,
the science, the art:

my body a bridge,

time writ from within me

in series of
nucleotides,

the sequence of strictures,
the slow stop-and-start.

my guilty chromosomes,
remorseless heart.

the steady march
of my ancestors

down my spine:

divide and conquer,
spindle and divide.