(Russell J Turner)
Octospora humosa
...the subject of a naming competition in The Guardian in 2011 ‒ I may have read the comments section...
The Merry Archer grins and draws his bow
as Jagger’s Choir sings devil songs for fun,
a Shooting Star lights up the sky to show
the Rusty Sniper where to aim his gun.
There’s Carrot Blast and Orange Bombadier,
and plenty more with colours in their name ‒
Exploding Red Ears is just shit-hot gear,
Vermilion Pucker sounds like quite the game.
The winning epithet evokes for me
a fixture of the weekly viewing guide,
a half-forgotten childhood memory,
a painless televisual suicide.
So ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan, please take the stage ‒
your humble sonneteer has shown his age.
RJT
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