MY UNCLE
Whenever you see a rhinoceros,
don’t think of the weight of the creature,
but observe its most prominent feature:
a proboscis that looks like a wascerous.
A wascerous is the great nose
on my uncle, who once was a whale
that became a pet dog (an Airedale)
that became a Chimera, whose clothes
resemble the skin of a rhino.
Some poachers once shot him, but he,
being tough as an oak, served them tea.
Since then he’s become quite a wino.
He romps with large creatures for fun,
he tramps across jungles and plains,
he travels through space, yet refrains
from dates with beasts less than a ton.
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