The News In Poetry Day 92: Double Helix, Inc.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jun/13/supreme-court-genes-patent-dna

My DNA(tm) is quite unique
But I don’t own the patent. Even so.
I’m pirating the data as we speak!

I think I’ve always had a rebel streak:
I’m always replicating: did you know?
My DNA(tm) is quite unique.

I’m frightened of the havoc you could wreak
With rights to all my chromosomes, and so
I’m pirating the data as we speak!

A lengthy prison sentence you could seek
But my equipment goes where I will go
My DNA(tm) is quite unique.

The future that you have planned out is bleak:
Will we submit to copyrighting? NO!
I’m pirating the data as we speak!

But SCOTUS ruled your arguments were weak:
You cannot own this information flow:
My DNA(tm) is quite unique:
I’m pirating the data as we speak!

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