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putrid poems 2024


theme: dragons

The Grootslang from old Richtersveld
a number of posh dinners held.
The guests, as a group
were consigned to the soup.
“Not what we’d hoped for!”, they yelled.


The serpent who chomps her own tail
herself, is as dumb as a snail.
(but) She inspired Kekulé [discoverer of benzene’s structure]
to help make crème brûlée
Ouroboros! It’s you that we hail!


A most specially strong wicked worm
who guarded his treasure long-term
a hedgehog in Prague?
Don’t be silly. It’s Smaug!
I just like to watch you all squirm.


The Nothing envelops the land
While the hero attempts a last stand
when Artax sinks down
giving Atreyu a frown
Falcor arrives! All is in hand.


The Hydra of Lerna, we’re taught
to doom by Heracles was brought.
The heads kept multiplying
So without Iolaus’ deep-frying
His labor would have come to naught.


Daenerys, First of Her Name,
with Drogon set cities aflame
But nobody cares
for her, or her heirs;
Seasons six seven and eight we disclaim.


A Catalan dragon called Drac
with poisonous breath has a knack
of knocking you still
so in the words of Churchill
with him up with which you’d not shack


In the woods where the slithy toves gyred,
the Jabberwock's eyes I required.
Enucleation
Led to life’s cessation
But not how Lewis Carroll desired.



π's birthday:

dmd:

Over at McDonalds where the McNuggets are carefully counted
Pi is 43, which next year will be surmounted!
 * 43 is the largest natural number that is not an (original) McNugget number

Technetium is a curious metal
Its isotopes refuse to settle
 * Tc, atomic number 43, is the lightest element whose isotopes are all radioactive

Over in the Bible, where there is a book of Numbers,
When the authors got to Pi's age, they all fell into slumbers.
 * 43 is the smallest number that is not mentioned in the Bible

Plorkwort crawls around the Shri Yantra
But she has no mouth, so can't chant a mantra.
 * 43 is the number of triangles in the Sri Yantra, a mystical diagram used in Shri Vidya school of Hinduism



spd:

Lucy is a cat
Emmeline is too
The are both creatures that say mew

cad:

Over in the meadow where the ducks are yellow
I go to the pond and feed them jello

I play my ophicleide a bit
is that why it’s so full of spit?

over in the meadow, where the daffodils parade
i saw some snail bandits, going on a raid