persephone

Mi pelo es largo, ahora!

Generalmente, no me gusta poemas, pero yo compro un libro viejo con divertido poemas. Voy a escribir por tu.

The Epigrammatist

I know an entomologist
who thinks it not a sin
to catch a harmless butterfly
and stick it with a pin
upon a piece of paper, white
and underneath the same
in letters large and plain to write
the creature's Latin name

I know another little man
who catches now and then
a microscopic little thought
and goads it with a pen
to rhyme until we wonder quite
how it can keep so tame
and why he never fails to write
beneath (in full) his name

If you should ask me to decide
the which of them I'd rate
the greater torment of the two
I should not hesitate.
It's wicked with a pin to bore
a butterfly-but then
I loath the other fellow more
who bores me with his pen.