Critterature: Concerning the Crafty Crayfish
...By many aliases they're known:
Crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs, yabbies.
They abound in brooks, and streams, and swamps,
As well as roadside ditches and rice paddies.
Their astacology has shown
Th...
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Categories:
taxonomically, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
On the Evolution of Liberation
...On The Evolution Of Liberation…
Once again
our humanity is taxonomically
mocked---no longer ¾
*****sapiens---a step
just below
that of being human. Rather,
today, we’re an endangered speci...
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Categories:
taxonomically, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose Poetry
In Dog We Trust
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Something as small as a Chihuahua or a Pomeranian,
or as large as a Mastiff or Great Dane,
is taxonomically classified as “Canis familiaris”.
This domesticated species is man’s companion...
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Categories:
taxonomically, dog,
Form: Rhyme
The Annual Turkey Massacre
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*****sapiens is what is me.
I am so happy I am not a turkey.
I am not taxonomically classified in a family
known to ornithologists as Melogracidae.
With a sauce made from the cranberry,
thes...
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Categories:
taxonomically, holiday,
Form: Rhyme