Edible Poets

Ethnology of edible poets

Today we classify at least four distinct genera of them:

the edible wood poet

the edible mountain poet

the edible savannah poet

the edible swamp poet.

There is still a (sometimes heated) debate going on about the question whether the coastal manifestation of the edible poet is to be treated as a genus of its own, or has to be classified as a subgenus of the respective adjacent inland form. Purely maritime types of edible poets have too rarely emerged yet to really have been studied at all; the most widely agreed hypothesis is that they are rather an aberration of the coastal type (or types — depending which side of the 'coastal escarpment' you're on) than a genus of its own. No aerial edible poets have been reported yet. There have been, however, sketchy descriptions recently of sightings of a possible new genus, the edible cave poet. Although another heated argument has risen immediately, whether they might not be a sub-type of the edible mountain poet.

But this shall be enough of this kind of scientific narcissism and vanity.

They gather for a few days each year for the only social interaction between them worth mentioning: exchanging poetry — and of course mating (in the ethnology of edible poets these two are considered more or less the same thing).

Analysis by Commander McLane

Biargean Scandal

The Soylent Green scandal. See the Commander Munchausen thread for lengthy details on this blood-curdling event.

Where did the edible poets come from?

See Where do these crazy names come from?