A Poet's Notebook: The News Writer in A Biology Class

The News Writer In A Biology Class

The lead:

46 chromosomes were set

To produce one human

After an egg met a sperm.

The said chromosomes contained

Genes that the baby human would inherit

From the mother human

And the father human.

Nine months later,

What used to be microscopic

Became a curly-haired miniature human,

Much to the mother's ecstasy

and the father's fury.

None of the parents have curly hair.

It is, therefore, alleged

That the woman was unfaithful;

That her egg met another man's sperm.

But the man failed to see

The other angle of the story.

Recessive traits were the culprit,

Not the baby's mommy.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: this is the kind of humor only I can laugh about. haha. Being a news writer for a student publication gives me headache and pressure. so does being a nursing student. Since I'm a follower of the 'like cures like' principle (lol) I wrote this poem back in 2007.