a villanelle for PZ Myers

Happy 50th to the most prolific, most entertaining, most vitriolic, most unapologetic blogging scientist.


Watch out for PZ Myers when he's pissed.
His words rev like a chainsaw belching fire.
You don't mess with a bearded scientist.

As long as dumb young-earthers still exist,
Slumming in pseudoscientific mire,
They'll watch for PZ Myers when he's pissed.

For every crank or loony solipsist
Too batty, too senescent to retire:
You don't mess with a bearded scientist.

You'll be dispatched, or disemvoweled, dismissed
To bawl your bawling in a different choir.
Watch out for PZ Myers when he's pissed.

If you're persistent, welcome to the list:
A place for all your blathering to expire.
You don't mess with a bearded scientist.

The truth is simple, not a single twist:
If you grow pale before volcanic ire,
Watch out for PZ Myers when he's pissed.
You don't mess with a bearded scientist.


Update: GrrlScientist has a round-up of natal felicitations.