D, N and A

I’d like to track my DNA,
To me, it’d be a hit,
My tiny little sample
Could tell me quite a bit.
Like—who am I descended from,
And from whence I came,
A little ‘bout my ancestors,
And something of my name.
I’m not sure how it works, it’s true,
A scientist, I’m not,
But ‘genotyping’ is the path
To tell me what I’ve got.
But there’s a little squiggle,
A tiny little hit,
To access all this ‘Science’,
Would cost a little bit.
I’ve really not the assets,
To pay that mighty sum,
So I’ve come up with something else
To get the matter done.
I tried a little trickery,
(Not as nasty as it sounds)
I said I won the lottery…
Now relatives abound!
P.S. Husby wants to know
We talkin’ Canada? USA?
Will US folks say DN-huh?
While we say DN-eh?!

With poetry, we all besought
To try to make the week begin
With gentle thoughts,
Perhaps a grin?
So Karen , Charlotte, Mimi, me
Have crafted poems for you to see.
And now you’ve read what we have wrought…
Did we help?
Or did we not?

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Topics for the next few weeks (with a huge thank-you to Mimi, who comes up with so many of them!)...
DNA (February 28) Today!
Telephone (or Say Hello Day) (March 7)
Genius Day (
March 14)
Celebrating Poetry (
March 21)
Respect Your Cat Day (
March 28) (Richard II's 1384 edict forbidding eating them.)
Imperfection (April 4)
On the Border
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