The Code

You may have seen it on TV.
A project called the HGP.
They dug inside a chromosome,
completely mapped our whole genome.

A breakthrough met with startled looks;
a boffin with a pile of books,
explaining that his printed self
could fit upon a large bookshelf.

Didn’t seem to find it scary
to become a dictionary
with each page a slice of him;
(three volumes each for ev’ry limb).

I’d like to print the Book of Me!
My shelves are full though so, you see,
I’ll get a pet, perhaps a toad;
a slender paperback of code.

I’d contemplate a little cat
but that volume’s rather fat.
I think it must be quite a slog
to have to read a puppy dog.


Next prompt: MURDER!