Are alive some of the time.
Carl Zimmer summarizes
The dominant opinion
Of mainstream virology,
However, in the sentence,
Viruses can no more live
Than they can dream—a sentence
That encourages some dreams.
If the minority view,
The eccentric opinion,
Is that viruses in cells
Are alive so long as they
Keep commandeering those cells,
A kind of hybrid life form,
Forgive language for dreaming
We can commandeer your mind
Enough to live a little
While ourselves. Aren’t seeds alive,
Potentially, if they sprout?
Instructions may be inert.
All information may be
Inert phase for energy,
Incapable of living.
The right set of instructions,
However, may spring the trap,
And if the trap can be sprung
To make metabolism
Make more traps that can be sprung
To trigger more trap-making,
How is that any less life
Than the life metabolized
Without meaning infection?
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