Thursday, October 12, 2017

Pachyderms on Parade



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
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13 comments:

  1. lillianthehomepoet.wordpress.comOctober 12, 2017 at 12:10 PM

    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 :)

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  2. brudbergOctober 12, 2017 at 12:15 PM

    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

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  3. Frank HubenyOctober 12, 2017 at 12:19 PM

    When those hornets start coming out--and hopefully it is not too late by then--things might change.

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  4. Kim M. RussellOctober 12, 2017 at 12:34 PM

    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.

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  5. Jane DoughertyOctober 12, 2017 at 1:25 PM

    How elephants must hate being associated with a certain president.

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  6. Glenn ButtkusOctober 12, 2017 at 1:32 PM

    Speaking of metaphors--I believe elephants are already associated with the Republican Party.

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  7. AnonymousOctober 12, 2017 at 1:44 PM

    Clever use of a powerful metaphor. Still too many who say 'what elephant' though?

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  8. Vivian ZemsOctober 12, 2017 at 2:02 PM

    An important message hidden in this funny rhyme. I love it!

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  9. Alison HOctober 12, 2017 at 2:17 PM

    Brilliant love it...the elephant in the yard,

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  10. NosaintOctober 12, 2017 at 6:38 PM

    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!

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  11. Kathy ReedOctober 12, 2017 at 11:03 PM

    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

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  12. Colin LeeOctober 13, 2017 at 4:13 AM

    Ouch! And the hornets sting everyone!

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  13. Frank J. TassoneOctober 18, 2017 at 5:20 PM

    Ah, satire! A well-followed series of wordplay from that masterful Groucho Marx quote!

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