• CARNIVORY IN THE PLANT KINGDOM
•
• Eating during bankers hours,
• during the time others are sawing wood
• and the termites are eating it,
• hunger is first things first. Not sex.
• Not shelter. You live, learn and still
• and all we knock on wood because
• you’re never too young to step up to the plate
• , but you have to prioritize especially
• if you are a vegetarian as big as a reindeer.
• From the get-go when you are beating
• the tom-tom for dinner you don’t shilly-shally
• or you’re so full of beans
• (though it’s no skin off your teeth).
• As for freeloaders with time passing
• for anyone who knows his onions
• those layabouts will soon learn
• a new rite of passagewhen they are
• deader than a doornail. OK,
• plants eat animals, animals
• eat plants and other animals, but do
• plants eat other plants? (fungi, plants?)
• Jeez louise, you say, it’s screwey louie
• as far as the eye can see. But all
• you really need to know
• is that time-flies enter the ointment:
• because if it isn’t omnivory or carnivory,
• it’s herbivory, and a herd of hippos.
• CARNIVORY IN THE PLANT KINGDOM
•
• Eating during bankers hours,
• during the time others are sawing wood
• and the termites are eating it,
• hunger is first things first. Not sex.
• Not shelter. You live, learn and still
• and all we knock on wood because
• you’re never too young to step up to the plate
• , but you have to prioritize especially
• if you are a vegetarian as big as a reindeer.
• From the get-go when you are beating
• the tom-tom for dinner you don’t shilly-shally
• or you’re so full of beans
• (though it’s no skin off your teeth).
• As for freeloaders with time passing
• for anyone who knows his onions
• those layabouts will soon learn
• a new rite of passagewhen they are
• deader than a doornail. OK,
• plants eat animals, animals
• eat plants and other animals, but do
• plants eat other plants? (fungi, plants?)
• Jeez louise, you say, it’s screwey louie
• as far as the eye can see. But all
• you really need to know
• is that time-flies enter the ointment:
• because if it isn’t omnivory or carnivory,
• it’s herbivory, and a herd of hippos.
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