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jfirneno
at Fri Dec 26 09:54:53 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jfirneno ]
>>I definitely enjoyed that!
>>excellent poem!!
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>>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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Thanks. (NT) - jfirneno, Fri Dec 26 09:54:53 2008