Molecules with the Means to Replicate

All you need. From there,

Boom, complexity—

Hosts and parasites,

Cooperation,

Evolution, almost

An ecosystem.

Lab tests chalk one up

For RNA world.

The temperature

Of human bodies

Or hot summer days

Will do nicely. Add

A few droplets each

Day of fresh systems

Of translations. See

What happens. The first

Interesting split—

The first—is between

Hosts using their own

Replicase to split

And parasite lines

That crib from those hosts.

We incline to link

Metabolism

To the core of life

Ourselves, who lack it,

But how intriguing—

Could the first step of

Metabolism

Simply be stealing?