Would you laugh at a giraffe
in trousers?
Would you guffaw at a macaw
on blades?
Would you titter at a puppy litter
playing cards and counting beans?
Would you snort at the thought
of a porcupine who cuddles?
Would you shriek at the peek
of a baboon beating time?
Would you gasp in the grasp
of a python?
Would you leer as the steer
muscles train?
Would you sniff at the whiff
of a sandle?
Would you roar the lion's score
as the christians fall to earth once more?
Would you kiss if you miss
peanut butter?
Will you sigh as the sky
sheds its flood shades of wine?
© Mark Shepherd