The Snail — a limerick




To the gastropod, its glacial pace

is not from sloth, but imagined grace

but natural selections’s cruel portion

has arranged it through torsion

it must wear its own ass on its face.



WDS 2/25/2012

~ by smashey on January 26, 2012.

One Response to “The Snail — a limerick”

  1. there’s a ‘gastropod/god’ possible rhyme in the longer version
    witty and neat

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