Wednesday, February 27, 2008

what with his ethics . . .

Dr. Research stole my latest poetic effort away from me following yesterday's scintillating seminar. Here it is reconstructed as best I can manage, a five line "tanka" that conforms to the 5-7-5-7-7 pattern well-known to gender-confused wordsmiths from the time of the Tang Dynasty onward.


smart, very smart chimps
poking at ant hills with sticks
science is sketchy
they lack a concept of stick
but they are still very smart

3 comments:

Vicar(ious) said...

see my earlier comment a few weeks back. someone go kill or catch something--quick.

KGT (aka Cagey) said...

yes...meandering off topic...unless someone has a chimp hunt lined up.

Jim Tantillo said...

monkey brain masaman....

yummy