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Botaniwocky

Peter Cole

'Twas Byblis and the sepal traps

did gland and grumous in the whorl

All motile were the bladderworts

and the monstrose unfurled



Beware the involute my son

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the gibberelin, shun

the fulgid ringent bract



He took his falcate sword in hand:

Long time the midrib foe he sought

So rested he by the terete tree,

And stood awhile in thought.



And as in uncate thought he stood,

The involute, with eyes of flame,

Came noddling through the torose wood,

And bullate as it came!



One, two! One, two! And through and through

The vasculate went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

He went glabrescent back.



And hast thou slain the Involute?

Come to my arms, my basal boy!

O furcate day! Cauline! Caudate!

He chortled in his joy.



'Twas Byblis and the sepal traps

did gland and grumous in the whorl

All motile were the bladderworts

and the monstrose unfurled



© Peter Cole 1998.

This is written in the carnivorous plant dialect of Botany. A glossary of the terms used can be found in the Carnivorous Plants glossary and dictionary.

Peter Cole's email: carnivor@flytrap.demon.co.uk

Website: http://www.flytrap.demon.co.uk/cchome.htm

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