dont own a camera, couldn't enter the contest so i threw this together
perhaps it might encourage some better efforts


at a garter snake convention,
all the snakes were sitting bored,
when all at once a radix voice,
piped up amongst the hoard,
I say we have a contest,
just to keep us all awake,
to decide which one amongst us,
is the most attractive snake,
as its my idea,
on this i will not budge,
i recommend that steve gilfillan,
is the arbitration judge,
silence hit the convention hall,
as all the snakes went mute,
steves judging was as welcome,
as a fart in a diving suit,
a checkered from the back spoke up,
its nature that ordains,
you radix just aren,t beautiful,
it why your known as plains,
and then a tetrataenia asked,
speaking with a hiss,
can there be another skin,
as colour full as this,
at over thirty seven inches,
we,d not be classed a runt,
and our blue and orange racing stripes,
put us far far out in front,
the san frans boast was halted,
as a butlers took the floor,
its a waste of time you entering,
i really must demure,
the reasons for objection are simple and succinct,
before the contests over your sure to be extinct,
and then spoke up sirtalis,
I should really take the prize,
if only for my thick dark bands,
and matching large black eyes,
dont make me laugh concinnus said,
or my sides begin to ache,
take one look in the mirror pal,
your such a common snake,
Hark at you sirtalis spat back,
your quick with taunts and mocks,
with those large red spots all over you,
have you caught the chicken pox,
so thick and fast the insults flew,
as the species made their case,
as to just who was the prettiest,
in all the serpent race,
dont offer your opinion,
if you do you,ll get no thanks,
it was vanity that caused the split,
in the proud thamnphis ranks