Bobby Goosey Poem: WHY NOT A THRIP?

                                                      Western Flower Thrips (A)

Bobby Lee Goosey
 

           Why Not a Thrip?

A thrips is an insect—a thrips.
One thrips is a thrips,
Two thrips are still thrips,
And even three thrips are called thrips
(Not thripses, mind you, but thrips).
 
What a nasty and thoughtless thing to do:
To call one bug the same thing as two.
One thrips is a thrips,
Two thrips are still thrips,
And even ten thrips are called thrips
(Not thripses, mind you, but thrips).
 
It must be a hard life for thrips and a thrips
If a million and one of them still is a thrips.
One thrips is a thrips,
Two thrips are still thrips,
And even in multitudes they’re still all thrips
(Not thripses, not ever—just thrips).
Urghh.

Ant in Contemplation