Resistance Genes Typically Last Five Years in the Field

Reports the researcher,
Which would make resistance
Genes somewhat similar

To resistance fighters.
You don’t win on Earth. No,
You gain an advantage,

Or you’re set back. Sometimes
You lose. The tournament
Goes on without rules, save

That everything attempts
To go on, which only
Extends the tournament

Seemingly forever,
Although that can’t be. Life
Can’t get out of physics,

Can’t get out of changing
Until it’s all over,
Anymore than lives can.

We begin to wonder,
In fact, if life is now
Winding up for the end

Of its grand tournament.
The cycles spin faster.
Species are being hacked,

Which only speeds others.
Can life accelerate
Evolution to death?

We’ll see. Or we would see,
If we weren’t going first.
Meanwhile, the researcher

Suggests ways to invent
Resistance genes faster
To outpace the mutants.