sitting on a stone
-grassless
-hopless
and you call yourself a grasshopper!
I know I shouldn't, but I anthropomorphize.
I can't see this orangutan without hearing the words,
"Ya borin' me!"
play in my mind
parents lunged to cover impressionable eyes,
but someday they will be adults
who wonder about the mechanics
of how baby giraffes get made
Dear Flamingos,
Stop hiding your heads.
It freaks out the tourists,
making them think there is a pile of heads in some other corner of the Zoo.