AT LAST—We’ve now
commenced our third—and final—journey through Webster’s 3rd. This time, I’m
picking a word near the middle of each entry for each letter—a word that
interests me for some reason or a word I’d not ever known before—and
surrounding it with a frayed coat of doggerel.
Words that flew into
my life from Webster’s 3rd
goatsucker noun
any of
various medium-sized long-winged crepuscular or nocturnal birds (as the
whippoorwills and night-hawks)
Oh, is
“goatsucker” just the most noxious of names?
In the world
of all naming (such odious games)?
The revenge
of such birds should be certain and red.
Oh, taxonomy
needs to be turned on its head!
For the
birds soar on winds—and what grace they all show
While our
names pull them down till like us they are low.
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