[peterjb]

The Unrhymable Rhino

Anent the unrhymable rhino,
As Nash knew and Porter knew, I know —
In English there’s nothing unrhymable.
So be in no doubt of it, I'm a bel-
Iever that only a twerp’ll
Say rhymes are quite lacking for purple.

I'll leave out the teacher who’d Chaucer us,
And no way I’ll stoop to trichoceros
(Rime pauvre, I say) or embosseress,
Contrived for a lady embosser.
But that driver today that I squeezed by —
A move she was clearly displeased by —
No lady, she yelled out, “You tosser!”
(I dread I’ll again come across her).
Think how such road-ragers “Tosser!” us
Whenever you see a rhinoceros.

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