Ode To Nematodes

Oh, nematodes, in your abodes, From soil to sand to sea, You live with others, loads and loads, Most scientists agree. Your worm-like shapes allow escapes In places cold or tropic Though some of you avoid most scrapes Because you’re microscopic. This little ode I have bestowed To prove to John* and Tom* That a rhyme about a nematode’s Been written, with aplomb! John Watt and Tom Cunningham - Tom said I could write about anything but John responded that no one’s ever written a poem about nematodes. I had to google to find out what they were!