My Talented Pets
My turtle writes far faster than I do,
My owl composes with more variation,
My chimpanzee writes with more innovation,
My parrot from a novel point of view,
My grizzly writes ghazals about the zoo,
My cat writes catty crits, and my Dalmatian
Pens ballads about his buddy (an Alsatian).
Now what to write about? I have no clue.
Perhaps if I think hard and watch each pet,
I’ll come up with a theme. But even so,
I don’t think I will ever really get
A feel for how to make this poem flow.
While I still grind away at the sestet,
They’ll each have penned one thousand lines, I bet.
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