Pfiesteria piscicida, a poem by Steve Book

Pfiesteria piscicida

by Steve Book

Tiny dinopflagellate, killer of pfish,
Your twenty-something lipfe pforms
are perplexing, and we pfail to understand them.

Sometimes you are encysted,
sometimes amoeboid,
sometimes one gamete or another.

You attack pfish unpfairly,
with neurotoxic exudations that are turned on
by piscine excreta.

You numb the pfish,
and attack them.
The blisters that you cause are ugly.

You irritate the watermen's skin,
and do other things which I pforget . . .
(sometimes I pfeel conpfused).

Go away, Pfiesteria,
you are not welcome here.
Pfie on you!