Enterobacteriaceae

Bacteria here I come
Striving in my own food dump
Called by many names
And none of them are ever the same
Antibiotics I fear not
Awashed I am in this very clot
Out come millions in a poo
So be it… I’m making more too
Water water I should not meet
But if you ever see me in one
I’ll say… You better run
With all the gathering of us fellow
We will turn MacConkey yellow
-- 02/10/2009

Commentary

A "shit" poem describing the bacterium that I had been working on - Escherichia coli.