"My Ode to bacteria" :P

While you are logarithmically replicating
and happily translating..
your messenger RNA into protein
a part of your methodical,regular routine
And are in the heydays of your life!
put down your defense knife!
Take this poison and mutate
mutate!
mutate slowly to change your fate!
Strive...
to survive...
In distress..
to adopt to the excruciating environmental stress..
To feed me data...
data that allows me to survive this academic world...
data that makes me rich...
Data that allows me to talk in millions and billions...