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Team:British Columbia/HP arts
From 2010.igem.org
Part I
The world is better - synthetically speaking
Mediocre wholes we must dissect
The good, the bad, all ours for the taking
Assembling, dissembling, towards perfection
Rewriting, rewiring, renewing the future
The future is now behind us
Ideals and the imagination chase
After our work, our reality finally
We've changed the world, trumped our fate
What was once plastic, now organic-synthetic
Synthetic slaves, of all species and more
Have striked a utopic, sustainable balance
Humanity's extravagance and frailty, ingenuity
matched oil to oil, grain by grain,
ozone with ozone, an eye for an eye
What is beyond our control? If you consider
And what, which has value, is beyond our reach?
Part II
Are people better - synthetically speaking?
Mediocre selves we leave behind
Parts, interchangeable, nothing lacking
Ever evolving, surpassing perfection?
Rewriting, repairing, repeating the past
Have we put the past behind us?
Did our ideals and our dreams ever catch
Up to the truth of stark reality? But when
Has man left the world unchanged?
Fate. What was once malignant, now more resistant?
Resistance to change, in our ways and lives
Have perpetuated the old sinful balance
Humanity's belligerence and greed, incurability
Showed spill to spill, bomb by bomb,
One hole with more holes, an eye for an eye
What is within our control? If you consider
And what, which we value, is within our reach?
