A Packet of Seeds
A packet of seeds I got in the mail
from China it said. Well, isn’t that swell?
Having nothing to do – thought I’d plant them for fun,
so I watered them daily beneath summer’s sun.
Next thing I knew, there were tiny tails showing!
Attached to those tails, hamster babies were growing!
I then took the packet the seeds had come in
and had its words translated by Doctor Chin.
He told me the females of hamsters Chinese
had incredible medical properties!
“Their ovaries,” he confided in me,
“are used to make Prolia. Rich you may be!”
Gobsmacked was I. I could sell to Big Pharma.
From stuff out of China there sure comes strange Karma!
Aug. 12, 2020 for Carolyn Devonshire's "Mystery Seeds" Poetry Contest
Note: While hamsters coming from seeds is ludicrous,
I find it hardly any less ludicrous than the fact that the
drug injected for two years into my body contains the
ovaries of Chinese hamsters! Freaking hamsters!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_hamster_ovary_cell
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