He Wanted to Hide
Rambo the rhino got teased and was weeping
His dad said, “You’re soft!” and “This isn’t in keeping
With all of your peers and your sisters and brothers
Why can’t you be thick-skinned like all of the others?”
A Shocking State of Affairs
The pygmy electrician contemplates his unemployment
His state of malnutrition militates against enjoyment
He’s not afraid of work, in fact, he’s never known to shirk it
But every time he tries he synthesizes a short circuit
The Loonyverse takes shape
As I wrote last time, to relieve my depression I started to create an imaginary world that I could control — in contrast to the real world which was completely out of control. The world I created was one where anything could happen: penguins who hated eating fish,...It Was Hair Raising!
My barber joined up with a very strange cult
With a sad, but predictably shocking result
I watched the man’s sanity slowly unhinge
And he gave all his clients a lunatic fringe
It Was a Harebrained Idea
Radish the rabbit is hopping as mad as a hatter
Whose hat has been munched by a goat
He’s marching with hares: Lewis, Carol and Alice,
Protesting they don’t have the right, yet, to vote