Because its a sort of playful random name, the language used in the poem is very nursery rhymey and childlike giving a playful naive spin on war, also it could be something to do with the missiles used as the poem is all nuclear war,
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The idiom 'out of sorts' means that you are feeling irritable. "Sorts" are what typographers call those little blocks of type with one letter on each one. If you are "out of sorts" then you have run out of that letter -- you can imagine how that would make a typographer irritable!
Rhode Island
You can write in all sorts of books: notebooks, diaries, journals...
I suppose you could call a cyst a vesicle or sac of sorts
He thought that she is going to call the police and put him in jail.
Jon Roger Moen has written: 'The call loan market in the u.s. financial system prior to the federal reserve system'
Lots of crops..like rice,wheat,and all sorts of furits!
a detective of sorts,a master of education.the rat with the improbably large brain but most simply call me rattington..
They call it the "Jolly Roger" or "Skull & Cross bones".
They eat all sorts of tiny aphids and some are white in color. We call them Ladybirds in the UK !
The Dukes of Hazzard.