The Caterpillar
~Ogden Nash

I find among the poems of Schiller
No mention of the caterpillar,
Nor can I find one anywhere
In Petrarch or in Baudelaire,
So her I sit in extra session
To give my personal impression,
The caterpillar, as it's called,
Is often hairy, seldom bald;
It looks as if it never shaves;
When as it walks, it walks in waves;
And from the cradle to the chrysalis
It's utterly speechless, songless, whisteless.

Did you know?
Caterpillers are the larval form of butterflies and moths.