Quiz Show Poem by Douglas Scotney
Quiz Show
I invoke a great poem* by Thomas Hardy
and Phoenician goddess of Love, Astarte.
As the quiz show ages
and grows scrunty,
it guesses you don't know Greek.
'Which phobia, ' it asks,
'is fear of the crayfish or lobster? '
A astaco- B stakto-
C astatkio- D asticho-
The lucky contestant,
a poet,
mutters what sounds like 'old and mean',
and says, 'I don't know,
but I'll give astaco- a go.'
scrunty= Scottish for niggardly
Pic= Astarte, pronounced As-tar-tee
I looked up the Goddess in my wordbook and discovered the other words beginning as-; and then checked for staco-.
1 - I Googled " astacophobia" : " Showing results for astraphobia No results found for astacophobia" : ((((((( but.........Astarte is HOT! ! ! mama mia! ! bri :)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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