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Rated: E · Poetry · Scientific · #1573102
A poetic look at the pioneer of stem cell research.
Double Helix…
Trying to read words
twisted into a
small spiral staircase.
Jacobs New Ladder,
a slow ascent
to a sideways eight;
which is the knocker
to what some might say
a forbidden place;
our last frontier, God’s-
Laboratory.
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