Taxamania Poem by Haruna Garba

Vulnerable fiber
Once compact you were
Excised now, spliced and knotted
By Rightists
By Leftists
Now here is the yarn
To unravel sheer headache

Prejudice the strongest faith
Control and supremacy the keywords
Turned backwards, the worst germ
You are never told straight
History is never told straight
You are the core of all schisms
And once an archive is done
Multi-horned monster is born
You have landmines all around



Same kingdom as they are
Yet Clade puts them apart
Same clade they are
Order bears non- identical twins
Same order as they are
But family makes the difference
Of the same family they belong
Sub-family asunder renders them
Of the same sub-family they are
Genus draws a dividing line
Same genus as they are
Species yet prisms out the whole

Same phylum
Diverse class-
Dear human's fault
Same class
Different order-
Sad failings of human race
Same order
Diverse sub-order-
Bizarre Adamite's defect
Same sub-order
Dissimilar family-
Eveling's most pressing thirst
Same family
Distinct taxa
True ego's fuel

Attention drawn to the kingdom
Clade rebels it up
Attention drawn to the kingdom
Order wouldn't tolerate
Attention drawn to the kingdom
Species defies it all

Shoots off-shooting
Acacias at loggerheads
Agnail sprouting
Pentadactyled beaming pride
Hearts hardening
Humanity's inherent smut