Deletions Are, on Average, More Deleterious than Single Nucleotide Variants

Too bad no one gets to shop
In advance for either one.

If you have a deletion
Or single nucleotide

Variant, it’s not your choice.
And you never so much have

A mutation as find out
There’s something odd about you

Late or soon. And there you are.
Averages don’t mean a thing

To one-off sports of nature.
And you will still have to be

Part of some society,
An assigned identity,

Which you’ll shape as best you can,
With responsibilities

To the people around you
Who are, on average, not you.