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[rayheinrich]

< inhumanely inanely humane >

We hunger for unneeded food,
We're screwed because we can't get screwed,
Our love when found betrays our needs;
O that we could be centipedes.

[Erthona]

I don't know how centipedes follows from what the first three lines say, but I like it regardless. Concerning the picture, I suppose that is a nonvenomous centipede, but even so, I would never willingly let one walk on my arm. I've never seen anything that big in person, we only had millipedes, mostly when turning over a rock.

Dale

[rayheinrich]

I don't know how centipedes follows from what the first three lines say, but I like it regardless.

The centipede follows
on a hundred little feet.

It sits looking
through fallen leaves
on silent haunches
then moves on.

Concerning the picture, I suppose that is a nonvenomous centipede, but even so, I would never willingly let one walk on my arm. I've never seen anything that big in person, we only had millipedes, mostly when turning over a rock.

Dale

I haven't seen any that big; but my mom, while studying various species
of moss in South America, regularly came across them. Mom: "They're
venomous, but if you hold them right behind the head they can't bite you."

Not me, not ever, no how.

More pics:

[ChristopherSea]

Ha, ha... I just responded to this one in your faux-ku choo-choo. That mammoth arthropod reminds me of Vincent Price's 'Tingler'!

[bena]

That's kinda like saying a venomous snake won't bite you if you grab it the right way. I think I would hold that first centipede, but not those that follow, eek.

[Erthona]

Well I just think it is an insult to compare centipedes to humans, and insult to the centipede.

The Tingler for sure!

dale the centavo-pede

[rayheinrich]

Well I just think it is an insult to compare centipedes to humans, and insult to the centipede.
...
dale the centavo-pede

I hereby apologize to all centipedes (and to any other myriapoda
mistaken as such) for any aspersions I have cast, and any
defamatory statements I have authored concerning you.

In specific, I apologize for my pitiful display of homo sapien
('sapien' itself being an act of hubris) bigotry.

I have corrected my prejudicial verse in an attempt to correct this.
Again, my apologies.

Yours most humbly,
Ray Heinrich


Original:

We hunger for unneeded food,
We're screwed because we can't get screwed,
Our love when found betrays our needs;
We might as well be centipedes.

Correction:

We hunger for unneeded food,
We're screwed because we can't get screwed,
Our love when found betrays our needs;
O that we could be centipedes.

[Erthona]

Much, much better. I applaud your centepitarianism.


dale centipede justified

[i pray to pills]

hundreds of feets;

earth;

more feet than thoughts;


realistic.