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Wednesday 13 January 2010

Ongoing 17

The next picture shows an elephant and a car with no doors with the instruction to draw as many elephants as possible in the car. My poem, inspired by this picture, is called "Why elephants don't drive."

Why elephants don't drive

An elephant never forgets,
At least he does not forget much.
He's a whizz when it comes to recalling
Anniversaries birthdays and such.
He knows to the hour and the minute
When he first met his mate on the plain
For his brain once something is in it
Will not let it slip out again.
If he goes on a trip to the shops
He has little need of a list
And when he returns with the shopping
There's never a thing that he's missed.
But some things can give him a problem
For example if he has a car
Sometimes he'll put down his keys
And then he won't know where they are
And though he may search the Savannah,
And enlist every bull, calf and cow
To assist him in seeking to find them
The keys will remain lost, somehow
And if by some strange chance they're found
He'll discover that though he may strive
He just can't recall where he parked
Which is why elephants do not drive.

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