When swept into the Rock.

             He had just sighted a robin,

             And forget to wind his clock.

 

             Some millet husks on his collar

             Inhaled, started him to wheeze.

             Bird bent before the solid mound

             And spewed a sloppy sneeze.

 

             With chemical transformation

             The Rock became now clear,

             And Bird fell through the surface

             To describe the inner sphere.

 

             "A mucoprotein receptor,

             Which we could not yet decant

             This, what’s his name, Bird fellow,

             Must be.... well is, brilliant!"

 

             Now Bird wakes up in velvet,

             Newspapers delivered by Ph.D.s.

             The world thinks him a hero,

             He knows it was just a sneeze.

 

             He cries for fallen comrades,

             He gives velvet to another.

             The Rock was won by paperboys,

             General Flask wrote to one mother.

 

 

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