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draybar
at Thu Dec 25 11:28:42 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by draybar ]
I definitely enjoyed that!
excellent poem!!
Actually another poem!!! But this one is about ratsnakes...
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>>Ratsnakes (Ode to an Odd Hobby)
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>>The collection of ratsnakes is an obsession of sorts
>>You house them in gallons, you house them in quarts.
>>You fill up your basement with racks and with cages
>>You hoard up newspaper for ages and ages.
>>You fill up your freezer with rats and with mice
>>Your postman’s in fear of more burns from dry ice.
>>Every box or container is measured and tried
>>To see if it works as a bowl or a hide.
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>>The only new languages you’ll read, write or speak
>>Are Taxonomy Latin and Taxonomy Greek.
>>The choices of species are bizarre and confusing.
>>Just trying to say them is sometimes amusing.
>>Lineata, prasina, subocularis, dione
>>Radiata, vulpina and scalaris, hodgsoni.
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>>You'll debate about colors in climac’s and bairdi
>>Like Opera buffs might with Mozart and Verdi.
>>You question the bloodlines of locales and morphs
>>You see hybrids lurking in giants and dwarfs.
>>You argue on genus and species and subs
>>Like drunks fighting drunks in their favorite pubs.
>>Elaphe you say, I claim Pantherophis!
>>Zamenis they state, We correct Orthriophis!
>>Friendships are shaken, long threads appear
>>Trollbait is taken, there’s not much to cheer.
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>>But really it means that the season is done
>>We’ve run out of photos, we’ve run out of fun.
>>We’ll have to subsist on the memories we have
>>And plan for the next year as a sort of a salve.
>>When once more we’ll thrill to the promise of spring
>>And snakes will be mating and our herp hearts will sing.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes
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RE: Now for straight ratsnake talk... - draybar, Thu Dec 25 11:28:42 2008