Day 361 (Delayed): Symbiosis

The result of sitting in on a 9th grade biology lecture. Not great poetry, the rhythm and meter stink, but I was bored and had to do something.

Symbiosis
By Batsheva 11/27/10

Symbiosis means two creatures
Of two species live together
Come rain or shine
In every kind
Of good or nasty weather
"Sym" means together
While "Bio" means life
And symbiosis can cause
Great benefits or strife

Parasitism is a symbiosis form
Where a win and a loss
Are always the norm
One creature takes advantage
Of another
To its harm
And if you have a parasite
It's true cause for alarm

But commensalism is a better
Symbiosis type
One creature benefits but the other
Has no gripe

Mutualism means each organism
Only helps the other
Like a trusted friend, a colleague,
Or a sister, or a brother
And I suspect that
If you're on the ball
You'll see this is the best
Symbiotic type of all

And the moral, I think
If I got this right
Is avoid (and don't be)
A parasite