Harvard Molecular Biologists

Harvard molecular biologists on a big budget

In the most popular course on campus

Encourage chefs of elitist restaurants to use

Unbelievably expensive tools of physics to

Transform raw eggs into a high-tech, soft-boiled

Version of your mother’s breakfast, chorizo into a

White powdery enzyme which melts in your mouth

Not in your hand helping you envision lunch at a

Really swank Mexican restaurant with former

Presidente Vincente Fox while a rat’s ass worth

Of people scavenge and dumpster dive for anything

Almost edible or exquisitely, sufficiently ripe for the

Picking in garbage dumps around the world.  Last week

Our daughter stopped by with our granddaughter.

We’re seasonal so didn’t have Harvard educated

Toys available, so Zoe Dahlia got plain, old plastic

Plates and bowls and cups with which to play.

They were a super-technological version of her great

Grandmothers’ wooden blocks. We felt so technologic-

Ally, intellectually sophisticated while we ate fried,

Egg sandwiches fresh off the cast-iron skillet.