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INSECTOMANTICS
Insects are sometimes
so badly misnamed
Whoever's responsible
should be ashamed
For serving such nonsence
to people to swallow.
(Random examples will
heretofore follow)
LADY ? BUGS
Half of the Ladybugs
running around
Ought to object to a
name so unsound
That if it were accurate
there wouldn't be
A Ladybug left for an
ayeball to see.
DRAGON ? FLIES
Dragonflies, noted for
terrible tales
(Like sewing up somebody's
lips with their tails)
In truth, are so totally
harmless to man
There isn't an insect
who's harmlesser than.
PRAYING ? MANTIS
Ask any bug if he'd
recommend "praying"
As prefix to "mantis" in
preference to "preying"
It seems circumstantial
(unless we've been spoofed)
In naming the mantisses,
somebody goofed.
BUTTER ? FLIES
Whoever named butterflies
butterflies ought
To go back to school
until he's been taught
That butter's irrelevant
everywhichway
And never's been known
to have flown to this day.
Edlock Hart
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