A QUARTET OF DOUBLE DACTYLS
LOOSELY COILED AROUND
JAMES WATSON & FRANCIS CRICK
I
Hicketty-Picketty
Watson-and-Crick-ity
Never was meant to be
Holy as Grail;
Etiological
Cytopathology
Often comes down to a
Head or a Tail.
II
Back-in-Oz, Back-in-Oz,
Jimmy D. Watson was
Hiding behind the old
Curtain of tricks;
Not very nobly said,
“Deoxyribonu-
cleic was mine only
Mine it’s not Crick’s.”
III
Hobbity-Nobbity
M. H. F. Wilkins’
UV microscopy
Gave them a thrill;
Watson & Crick took a
Look and got hooked on the
Biogeometry,
Wilkins got nil.
IV
Barney-has-Bernie-has
Alfred no belly has
Watson & Crick are the
Ones who got phat;
Appetites hungry for
Sesquipedalian
Acids and Bases and
Dishes like that.
D. Edgar Lamp
www.TheDailyPoem.org
Double Dactyl
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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