Homing Device

I stumbled upon these articles and thought I'd write a poem about it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10856523
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2866109.stm

They had eaten her lettuce,
ravaged her petunias,
devastated her beans.

She was too kindly a person
to kill them
with pellets or salt.

So she took them to a nearby
wasteland.

It is gardener's lore
that snails have a homing device.

The ground-based radar
illuminates the guided missile
to find and track its target.

(fire-and-forget)
autonomously.