“US scientists have genetically engineered mosquitoes with eyes that glow in the dark. They do not carry malaria and they have a better survival rate than their wild counterparts.”

Beside Myself - Eric Shaffer

GLOW IN THE DARK EYE BALLS

gonna go mosquito hunting,
collect their eyeballs,
make me a teensy weensy
glow-in-the-dark bug eyeball
necklace to read by

i'll use it as my night light

can’t wait to sit out back
wearing it, watch tiny flying
glowing insect eyeballs
flit about me in the dark

when I squish em
they’ll leave glowing patches
on my skin, or the walls

squish enough of them
and light my room

the bugs who eat them
will begin to glow as well

flies, spiders, dust mites, tom waits
will all glow in the dark

it'll be an interesting world

S B Smith and Lady K

 

EARACHE MY EYE

The devices were called IPods,
and that should have been a warning,
                                                                    because
there was a classic science-fiction movie
where humans were replaced by alien doubles
called pod people
                                                   And
that's what happened here,
                                                   though
the replacement was instantaneous but evolutionary
Many centuries of the self-implants had led to the point
where only what was downloaded to (I)Pod remained in the brain
Only a small minority resisted the trend
and didn't become (I)Pod People

Michael Ceraolo

Melissa J. Craig