Poems in DNA
"Canadian poet Christian Bök plans to encode his verse into DNA that will sit within the genome of a live bacterium. He tells Nature why he wants to create an organism that will translate its own poetic response." _Nature, 2009, 485:35.
"How will the poem be encoded? The poem can be most easily encoded by assigning a short, unique sequence of nucleotides to each letter of the alphabet, as Wong has done. But I want my poem to cause the organism to make a protein in response — a protein that also encodes a poem. I am striving
to engineer a life form that becomes a durable archive for storing a poem, and a machine for writing a poem — a poem that can survive forever. "
Can you imagine thousands of years later, aliens found the poems style in DNA or protein? And human language, maybe just a junk for them too.
