8.3.17

Fulminate on Mercury

H.G.Wells
Was sure Hg smells
And his Martians' heat-rays, er,
Foreshadowed the phaser.


credit: National Portrait Gallery

or do you prefer

H.G.Wells
Wrote of heat-rays not spells.
Though a badly calibrated Time Machine meant
He lived in but never played Mornington Crescent.


By Sunil060902 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4439598


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