This is a liberal arts college, and we’re supposed to make connections across disciplines. In that spirit, I refer you to an extensive body of poetic work related to genetics, which I encourage you to augment. Throughout the semester, you will be offered several opportunities to bring culture to our cultures by waxing poetic. To ease the way at the beginning, I will provide the first four lines of a limerick, yours to complete. By the end of the semester, if not earlier, you may be spinning your own.

What is a limerick?
How can I answer? A limerick can only be felt, not explained. It is not merely a poetic form but an ethos, a way of life, a... aw, hell, it's about as simple as it can get:
 

	General:	A    di DA di di DA di di DA da A    di DA di di DA di di DA da B        di di DA di di DA dee B        di DA di di DA dee A    di DA di di DA di di DA da
	Sample:	Said Nir'nberg to Gobind Khorana, "I know you can make what I wanna,         Poly-U, please, on credit,         As soon as I've read it, I'll pay you your phe, on my honna!"

Note the rhyme scheme (adjustable, and the more improbable the rhyme, the better), the pounding meter (never mind what your English teacher told you), and the esoteric connections to the subject at hand. In some quarters, a limerick is not a limerick unless it is irredemiably vulgar. In this class, however, vulgar limericks will be dismissed out of hand (after a careful reading, of course) (and unless they're very creative).