BROCCOFLOWER
Was mankind meant to have the power
to make one vegetable from two?
Last night they served me broccoflower,
not a stove-top managed stew
but cauliflower rendered green
by being forced somehow to breed
with broccoli into a gene
to yield a brave new hybrid seed.
How shocking, mankind playing God!
How arrogant, presumptuous!
But stopping progress will be hard.
The flavor was quite scrumptious.
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