Cynic Genes

from Helicase: An Unzipped EP by Anna Brooks

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Cynic Genes

Apathetic, cold and skeptic
No, epigenetics is a nasty-ass aesthetic if you’re
handed down a family tree with pessimism in your genes
The methylation patterns show obsessive personality.

And nature and your nurture has you trained environmentally
To look at every instance for an, imminent catastrophe
You learn to look and never see
And everything you want to be is
Strained though your perception of a logical reality.

In your cells you know
Blood runs thick but it wouldn’t exist
Without what’s wrapping around your histones.

With post-transcriptional control,
Genes get switched by a flick of the wrist.

You feel like the conglomeration, of
past mistakes from generations
Cynical acetylation,
inexplicable mutation
Skip and a jump from plaster casts of grander generations
Living in your point mutations
Polymorphic calibrations
(Mitochondrial relations)

In your cells you know
Blood runs thick but it wouldn’t exist
Without what’s wrapping around your histones.

With post-transcriptional control,
Genes get switched by a flick of the wrist
and your choices can cause their expression to shift.

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from Helicase: An Unzipped EP, released May 2, 2016
Recording Help and Preliminary Mixing By Max Morrison

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Anna Brooks Ann Arbor, Michigan

Anna Brooks is a lyricist and musician who writes from the perspective of a biologist.

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