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Neutron Bomb
How doth the little neutron bomb
Improve its fission yield, And pour the waters of its heart Across the killing field. How brilliantly it scores the sky, How neatly fells the thrush, As if it heard our hopelessness And tried to beat the rush. 24 February 2012
From the Daily Whale.
A parody of a parody!
Lewis Carroll’s
How Doth the Little Crocodile makes fun of
the deadly dull moralistic verse
Against Idleness and Mischief by
Isaac Watts.
I figure that Carroll needs a cynicism upgrade for the 21st century.
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