A Chicken Poked...

A Chicken Poked...

A Silly Ode by Izzy Sommers, Welland, Canada, November, 2005

A chicken poked a lemur’s femur, and
Some platypuses aggravated many
Hippopotamuses humeri.
An adder punched an armadillo in
The bladder with his pussy willow, and
A wildebeest can feast on yeast when least
Expected to release the keister of a beast
Of burden and his handy mandible.
The ulnae and the radii are much
Like tibiae and fibulae. Perhaps
You’ve recognized a few in ducks
Or geese or chickens.


Would you prefer to poke a lemur with
A chicken femur or would you demur?
Would you provoke tyrannosaurus rex?
Another placid platypus adjusted
By an orthopaedic octopus...