The Metaphysical Elephant
The blind fleas were all gathered,
around the Elephants behind,
they probed and climbed all over him,
to see what they could find.
"I have here a giant parasol"
"Oh, no this is surely a dragon or snake."
And one poor chappy found himself,
wondering if he'd found a cesspool lake.
They argued and they clamored,
and then they jumped out of their skins!
As a trumpet call sounded,
and the Elephant began to shake!
"Is this world we live in aQuake?
Is it coming to an end,
Woe as me, this is more than I can take!"
One of them whispered in the parasol,
"what are you?"
But the answer he couldn't hear.
For the sound was so loud and resounding,
that it filled all present with fear.
But then one of them understood what the elephant said,
as he drowned in an elephantine tear.
The elephant was saying to the fleas;
"Would you please stop biting my rear."
Chris :-)
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