Ode to a lump of volcanic ash I found in my airplane engine this morning
Created | Updated Dec 19, 2010
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Christmas Vogon Poetry Competition 2010
Ode to a lump of volcanic ash I found in my airplane engine this morning by Beatrice
Oh putrid fumes of rotting eggs
Thy gaseous plumes do soar
Like halitosis from a very
Poorly dinosaur
Oh rock and glass so pulverized
Pollute the stratosphere!
Spew and disperse, come do your worst
Pour magma far and near.
Oh lava pump, and ash eject
Throw pyroclastic clouds!
Particulate abrasiveness
Spreads o'er the world like shrouds
Emit sulphuric belch through fissures
Viscous lahar free
Debris and pumice fragments spray
Geothermally
Erupt once more and havoc wreak
So all those travelling folk'll
Have to go by boat or train
Dear Eyjafjallajoekull
The Post Christmas Competitions 2010
