Here's the runner up in the purple prose category of Bulwer Lytton
competition for the worst verse:
 
Runner-Up:
  Like most members of "Mustela putorius fero," known to laymen as the
  domestic ferret, our inquisitive hero (about whom more we shall
  shortly read) resembled a shrunken polar bear, toasted by a blowtorch,
  suffixed by a tail, and stretched out like taffy while still hot.
 
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens.  The
sleeper must awaken.  - Frank Herbert
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Green Bean & Family - http://foxfoot.tripod.com/
Kitties: Happy, Cooper, Tibet, TS, Green Bean & Jessamyn
Ferrets: Boo, Eris, Texas, Icarus, Dakini, Dodger, Snagglepuss, Strawberry,
 Isadora & Feona Hopper
[Posted in FML issue 3476]