Poems of the Week

Bait and Switch

by Dan Campion

“Scientists put a dead cow on the deep ocean floor and filmed something very unexpected”
Earth.com

My first thought: golden arches swam
Before the boffins’ lens;
My next had bronzed Beefeaters slam
The cows like loud Big Bens;
My final guess saw flocks of larks
Pay homage to the cow.
But no. The film shows “sleeper sharks.”
That’s “unexpected”—how?