Who Cares? a spelling word poem by me, Alison Miller   Who cares if they're deleterious, or The fuchsias are minuscular? What are those spelling words for, Like prolegomenon or prosateur? Who cares when they coruscate? Why won't the vacillatory ratel wait? What is the pharaoh's true fate? Is that sagittal object some bait? Does paronomasia bring pruritus? Will the talapoin really bite us? Can a shrieking tichorrhine spite us? Is the colobus able to sight us? Where can I buy a nephelometer? Get an obloquy of a photometer? Find a rotulet about the emanometer? Get a placet for the radiometer? Who cares when you interrogate? With your questions we'll all have to wait For the librarian who we appreciate To hunt for answers throughout this estate!   Alison Miller Times Union, Albany, New York, representative to the 1998 and 2000 Scripps National Spelling Bees This poem was submitted with Alison's 1998 spelling notebook when she was a sixth grader. Alison also coined the title of a collection of eponyms called "Eponym City." At the 2000 Scripps National Spelling Bee, Alison came in third!

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