L.E.A.F. 4th Annual Event Celebrating Toronto's Urban Forest w/Primordial Soup

Pictures I took from LEAF's 4th Annual event, celebrating Toronto's Urban Forest at the Artscape Wychwood Barns on June 11, 2010
Featuring a poem I wrote in 2008 about DNA, titled PRIMORDIAL SOUP.
Background music with Bass Clarinet and Cello, titled DNA Duet, created in Finale Notepad 2010.

Primordial Soup,

I've always wondered what it'd be,
To be a pool in endless sea,
Primordial ooze at the dawn of time,
Amino acids waiting for an enzyme,

Watching and waiting at the sky above,
For lighting to strike me and change what I consist of,
To turn me into something more,
Than what I was at my very core

Adenine, gaunine, uracil, cytosine
Is all I was is all I've been,
Looking for that methyl group,
In this endless primordial soup,

To turn my uracil into thymine
I feel that change from deep within
No more lonely nights of solitaire
I can be much more when I'm a pair,

No longer single no longer flaccid
I am now Deoxyribonucleic acid,
And now I want to be much more
To divide and conquer and wage war,

Survival of the fittest is my stand,
As I evolve gland by gland,
Evolution is a genetic revolution,
To be the best is my resolution,

But now I fear that I'm alone
All different and bad to the bone,
They call me a strange anomaly
In this huge normality sea

But Without abnormalities there can be no change,
And even though they call me strange
There can be no evolution without genetic revolution
And for this reason I am the solution

Yet here I am, all alone
Sitting by this ring-less phone
Wondering what it would be
To be that pool in endless sea.
Al

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