Lessons In Zoology:  1

When Aristotle played voyeur
To study the Dibranchian order,
He made his notes of him and her
Sans camera or tape recorder
As he viewed in studied concentration
Squid engaged in copulation.

Today, for scientific notes,
Students all, howe’er plebian,
Have access to glass-bottomed boats
To traverse the Aegean sea in.
They even package air.  There are
Parrapazzi in the ocean
spying on the squid’s boudoir,
Recording color, sound and motion.

The Geographic recently
Published a color photo of
A pair of squid (perhaps in love)
Doing what comes squidishly.
Aristotle’s observations
were in the caption duly noted
(In our intercourse with ancient nations
Only the squid have not been quoted),
The photo proving those sportive squid
Do just what that old Greek said they did.

Whatever license years allow
One thing was certain then, as now:
In terms of scholarly alliance,
Sex is not divorced from science.