Future Imperfect

[dukealien]

Under the sacred seal of the Spoiler (don't do as I do)

Plant an acorn, you get another oak, with acorns..

But plant the pit from an eating avocado, and the tree bears fruit nothing like it.  That's because it came from a graft.

With people, a stockbroker and a housewife produce... a fighter pilot, a back-alley sleaze, and a TV actress.

So, are people grafts?  In some ways... (senryu).  A movie actress produces a movie actor son because she passes on good looks, attitude... and her agent.

Modern eating bananas are another story - worth a poem?  They're all clones of one another, and the same fungus could wipe out every last one.  A warning to humans about reproducing asexually to produce picture-perfect kids?

Glad you liked it.