Any style of life The faery is rosy The above lines are
excerpted from the poem “The Xenotext.” What’s so special about
it? Poet/scientist Christian Bök encoded the first stanza into a
DNA strand and injected it into an extremophile bacterium called
Deinococcus radiodurans, which (after some tinkering on Bök’s
part) produced a corresponding protein with the second stanza
encoded. It’s part of the world’s first “living poem.” Talk
about experimental poetry. Yes, but what does it mean? We’ve
taken a shot at decoding (ha) these stanzas on Rap Genius. You
can see the results here.