‘Flagellated protozoan’
Is the best rhyme I can find
For ‘trying to write a poem’
How amusing
‘Flagellated protozoan’
Seems to mean ‘a little creature
That is never found in poem’ –
How confusing
And it isn’t really rhyming
And the rhythm is all out
A stupendous lack of timing
Shows throughout it
And the harder that I ponder
And the longer that I try
The worse the poem wanders
All about
So I’m stuck here with a poem
About whip-like protozoans
And I think that I’m not meant
To be a poet
So I’ll put away thesauri
And I’ll go back to my lab
And I’ll play with
protozoans: flagellated
instead.