Neopalpa donaldtrumpi
"The agencies of magic are literal-minded.”—Norbert Wiener
The Hitler beetle, Anophthalmus hitleri
Is brown and blind, poor timid thing,
living out its little life in damp Slovenian caves,
where crazed Nazi collectors are collecting it to extinction,
and savants seek to strip it of its name.
Beating its wings, the Mussolini moth, Hypopta mussolinii,
a carpenter miller in the family Cossidae, rose to zoology
and got singed—its honorific smacked too much of evil fame.
What fate awaits, we currently demand,
of hapless Neopalpa donaldtrumpi,
a twirler moth maligned as poorly hung?
Must we now hear its name's new lamentation sung?
Down in the regions where this flutterby abides
it’s said the bards of science have commenced to strum.
Anophthalmus hitleri, the Hitler beetle
