NCLDV: All Beasts Are Brutes

We wear our cells as cloaks
That hold the germs of us,
And have done since our germs

Were all we were, when we
Were the bugs and free cells
Were our hosts. Now we’re done

With lives as cells or germs
And live as hosts that cling,
Each to each, in huge clouds

Of clones that have to fend
Off the next waves of germs.
Sit in your house and watch.