Zoology Students On Holiday
My cat has six claws on her frontmost two paws
I once owned a mouse who had nine
They fought tooth and nail, 'til the cat did impale
The poor mouse and then doused it in brine
My dog has six tails on his hindmost back end
My little fish has only one
The dog, for a lark, taught the fish how to bark
A dogfish it was, (that's a pun!)
My cow's horns are four -- not one less, not one more
I once knew a goat which had eight
They once both had six, ere they crossed oer the Styx,
They're less horny now, what a sad fate!
I met two small elves, and their fingers made twelves
My dybbuk has only three
The elves picked a fight, put the dybbuk to flight
(Elves always beat dybbuks, you see)
My engineered clones cause the mob to throw stones
In quadruplicate ad infinitum
It's not that I mind that they're all so unkind
But of twelve-hundred barks, none will bite 'em
My love of the science maintains my defiance
Though my love of the sea makes me queasy
So I've set a stone slab in the heart of my lab
For the scientists own lemon squeezy
My love of the weird just lengthens my beard
But my toenails stay stubbornly short
So I pull them with tongs, but that wrights not their rongs
Now I can't take my aunt to the Court
I went to the park with my favourite shark
To play with the young girls and boys
He bit off their limbs (Sue's, Sadie's and Jim's)
Now they'll hearken that sharks are not toys
I chanced with a dance to enhance this deep trance
But my therapist bade me awake
Now I'll skim on a limb with my favourite pal Jim
And then we will both pee in the lake
Contributors: | Helen Owly, Grayman, Evan, Beefy, F, ambyr, Kansas Sam, simbosa, fester, Cimmerian Knight. |
Poem finished: | 4th November 2004 by Helen Owly. |