Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Semper Augustus

Semper Augustus I was named.

Rarest tulip in Holland I

Had crimson flares on white and famed

As most coveted tulip, why?

It's just how greedy humans be.

In 1637 there

Was tulipmania for me.

I made markets crash everywhere,

As fortunes were bid to obtain

Me, the priciest flower known.

Over me humans went insane.

Sadly, my fame got overblown.

A virus was in bulbs of mine,

And killed off my genetic line.