Member Poem

Got Her A Good Job, Too

Terri's project won top honors

in the station's science fair,

beating out cold-fusion cooking

and faster-than-fugue inductive learning;

the parthenogenetic hamsters

did have a bit of croc blood in them,

hence the scales,

aquatic habit,

love of fish (raw and wriggling)

size (large), temper (short),

catholic taste in snack food,

remarkably hard teeth,

and powerful tails,

but it was their fecundity

that got her in trouble,

that, and a few might have gotten away

a little bit.

But then, Crocamster™-pelt handbags

swept the province,

she sold the patent to a big Mars-based designer,

and Terri had plenty of cash

to pay for all the damage

and the evacuation.