#701 - today's word is omicron

 

 

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omikron variant

disambiguation (or not)

 

today’s word is omikron

 

the vengeful, otherworldly

eyecatching spikey mutant

lacks that alpha-delta balance, poise

ugly thing, unkempt

haircut advised

 

a genus of wasp

a hill in Alaska

mentioned in every bulletin

omikron has reach

 

colourful though at the proper distance

could be a party decoration

never too early for Christmas!

 

has a higher number of mutations

think of them as velcro

can call that skin in the game

 

it actually is an adventure video game

bacterium was once

(1987, now renamed Polynucleobacter necessarius

… no relation, of course)

 

looks a bit like the map that got away

but nobody actually gets that close

(except remember Fantastic Voyage)

 

stay on the mission and find

omicron provides

parts, repairs, replacements

data sets

it’s the latest!

 

have you got the omikron yet?

can it be confirmed?

 

up nose down throat

all purse lips for a little o

(not the big one, mind)

 

women, men in white coats

fashion is a mask

 

I’ve looked it up

it is a car and spare parts too

 

just a little sniffle with

invades the city

razes the opening hours

 

say it and gone!

 

OMICRON –

sounds like a heavy metal

headache remedy

(but not across the counter)

 

AUM-ikron –

there’s something sanskrit there

touch of the universal hum

(another name for tinnitus)

 

we don’t know now

but soon will –

beat up

or next nemesis ?

 

transformer terror

tv, radio, podcast and on

 

there is a t-shirt already

and the universal primary injection test set

has long been with us

 

ultimate fifth columnist –

the bug within the bug

 

dead or alive?

virus is a Schrodinger’s cat

 

offers differential protection

(or advertised as such)

 

a bus with

two axles or three

there was a double decker

(long gone)

and flying space car, not yet

 

it is the fifteenth letter

worth seventy

still trying to figure that out

 

in the 1963 comedy

comes back

after being taken over by an alien

 

what can you expect from today’s word?

 

omicron! – all things to all!

 

already so yesterday