Nothing Asks to Be Created

It seems inevitable,
Barring doom, that some team will
Get around to designing

A living organism
Essentially plagiarized
At a mosaic level,

Each goodly chunk of genome,
If not every single gene,
Lifted from a different source,

Not a minimal life form,
Not moderately altered
Extant species, not a half

This and half that chimera
But a bricolage creature.
It won’t be as important

As medical genetics
Or AGI, most likely,
But someone will create one,

As soon as it can be done,
And then that will be something
Trying to live in the world.