morn I fetch fresh fish
from which I
fashion fancy dish-
es offer'd
ev'nings at my three-
star zushi-ya,
where's featur'd
mackerelephant
as well as
yellowtailephant --
yes, even
brillephant...on fin-
gers of fois gras.
grassland's over-grazed.
Still, Grant's Ga-
zellephant's unphased.
She bobs, she
weaves...but fin'lly
leaves Pedjari Park.
('Twas sim'lar
donkey's years ago:
she felt she'd
stay, then felt, "No, no...
I can't decide..." --
then miss'd her
ride on Noah's ark.)
As sib to
slug 'n' kin to sloth
(gross slow-mode
Snailephants are both),
these massive
gastropods exude
smears slick with slime.
Each bears his
home upon his back
(a concho-
logic gunnysack...?) --
this clam-cum-
caddisworm-cum-her-
mit-crab...in rhyme.
Betusk'd bi-
pedal flightless birds!
One breed of
Quailephants, in herds,
appears most
frequently amidst
those feather'd ranks.
(Of course, more
omnipresent still
are milk-white
Whalephants, huge krill-
consuming
louts who lunch on snapp'd
sea captains' shanks.)
guillidae, one next
Electric
Eelephants inspects.
These inter-
ject their helpless
unsuspecting prey...
...with one and
often sev'ral amps.
Said prey'll de-
velop caustic cramps,
emit foul
gas, then shit...then pass
(alas!) away.
Owlephant is not
plu-proble-
matical to spot.
She's, after
all, not awf'lly
smaller than an ox.
She nests in
hollows of dead trees,
(though none save
redwoods, if you please)
and feeds on
mice, but big ones
twice the size of croc's.
Candidates for future stanzas:
The Bluegillephant
The Camelephant
The Mandrillephant
The Seagullephant
The Whip-poor-willephant
The Spoonbillephant
The Cockateelephant
The Sealephant
The Crocodylephant
The Bullephant
The Gorillaphant
The Krillephant
The Godzillephant
The Volephant
The Molephant
The Foalephant
The Kangaroolephant
The Mulephant
