painting by Samuel Adler Heydenn
Pachyderms on Parade
“I just shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he
got in my pajamas I’ll never know.”
--Groucho Marx.
Climate change is the elephant squatting
in the yard, tearing up important grass,
making mud, sucking up ponds, then spraying
trunk rain, eating hedges, showing its ass--
impervious; as all those who are crass
say global warming is just a bad joke,
but they are giving hornet’s nests a poke.
Glenn Buttkus
Posted over at dVerse Poets Pub MTB
13 comments:
Well....you had me at the hilarious Groucho Marx quotation. I actually laughed out loud...one of those raucous ones! :) And then...the beginning of your post....climate change is that elephant sitting in the room. You are one crazy guy, Glenn, and I LOVE to read your posts! Thanks for the smiles today :)
The elephant dancing in the glass-house, but if you close it hard enough you won't notice until you are buried in dung. Deniers
When those hornets start coming out--and hopefully it is not too late by then--things might change.
I love that killer quotation, Glenn - keep them coming, please! I also love elephants and the way they trumpety-trump - but not the Trump who doesn't believe in climate change - he is a joke - a bad one.
How elephants must hate being associated with a certain president.
Speaking of metaphors--I believe elephants are already associated with the Republican Party.
Clever use of a powerful metaphor. Still too many who say 'what elephant' though?
An important message hidden in this funny rhyme. I love it!
Brilliant love it...the elephant in the yard,
Great use of humor to make a serious point! And I liked how you separated out that last line from the rest to make the reader pause there. Nicely done!
You also had me at the Groucho quote! :-) It can't be reiterated enough, global warming is indeed the elephant in the room. Too many of them for any one person to dismiss even one..scary it is! I
Ouch! And the hornets sting everyone!
Ah, satire! A well-followed series of wordplay from that masterful Groucho Marx quote!
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