With Apologies to Joyce Kilmer - A Clone Poem

One day they say we all shall own

Our perfect image in a clone.

When poets breed by means like these

Then God can concentrate on trees.

 

Jack Kogut is a mostly professional technical analyst and a mostly amateur writer of mostly fiction with training and experience in the physical sciences. . He has had stories recently published in “Planisphere Q-Fire and Ice” and the “Ugly Babies 3/Ghosts Redemption” horror anthology. His is non-fiction work has appeared in “The Washington Post”, and a number of general and trade publications. He lives with his family in the suburbs.