Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
- (attributed to) Groucho Marx.
Drosophila bifurca is a species of fruit fly. Males of this species are known to have the longest sperm cells of any organism on Earth—5.8 cm long when uncoiled, over twenty times the entire body length of the male.
- Wikipedia.
Certainly, Mr Marx,
Your fruit flies
Do a banana like.
Yet their hallmark's
That their seed flies
Like a lightning strike.
Shall you this line catch again?
Or did you shunt and passage end?
'Tis three past twelve; I here remain.
Tell me not I wait in vain.
I know not all the routes you wend;
Shall you this line catch again?
As a refrain is a city train
On whose return I may... depend?
'Tis four past twelve -- I here remain.
How lose a briefcase in a refrain?
This far th' simile can't extend.
Shall you this line catch again?
Stand and count I each sand grain
That descends to my doom portend:
'Tis five past twelve! I here remain.
Is it your toot my ears attain?
To be tardy did you intend?
'Tis far past twelve, I here remain
So you this line catch again.
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Rhymer's notes. The villanelle soars in One Art and Are you not weary of ardent ways, and perches highest at Do not go gentle into that good night. Line 16 was thrice composed. First it was through a misunderstanding of the rhyme scheme 'Is that your roll round the bend?'. Then it became 'Arrive you at last at the quatrain' before a less meta option was picked.
