72 Miles From The Sea

Sunday, 25 June 2023

The Diamondback was in tears

And was quite inconsolable.

The reason was that someone

Had taken away his rattle

My favourite comedian is a duck

I like to see him do stand up

Though he’s not to everyone’s taste

The guy really quacks me up

If I said my dog ran ten miles,

And not so his legs were stretched,

But to retrieve his favourite stick,

Would you think it too far fetched

In a Borneo jungle there is

An albino orang-utan

That the indigenous people call

A meringue-utan

500 sit-ups a day

For the fittest Himalayan

Has earned him the name

The abdominal snowman

A slug is a curiosity

But if you check their genome

You’ll find they are snails

Who have lost their home

Apparently it takes three sheep

To make a sweater

But I’m pretty sure that humans

Can do it better