me / my body
My body was created in a lab
By lasers and pharmaceuticals
Modified by the miracle of modern medicine
I spoke to a doctor
“I’d like one of those please”
A pill a day, an injection a week
Reshaping the form I was given
I would not be possible without the industrial revolution
My body was created in a lab
By fertilizers and genetic modification
Centuries of techniques and shared knowledge
Factories of automated machinery producing tractors and combines
A supply chain of unimaginable complexity
Jet planes, freight trains
Early mornings, late nights
I would not be possible without the labor of so many
My body was created in a lab
Literally
An egg fertilized by a sperm in a dish under fluorescent light
The miracle of life performed on demand, for a price
Then birthed on command
Same lights, different place
Practiced surgical techniques, precision machined tools
Protected by those who came before me
Without them I would not be possible
I was born at the height of humanity