TWENTY SEVEN

I read a tale today about
A complementary frog
And an amicable prawn
Underwater;
Aqua marine land drop out
And famous crustacean of kinds.

Frog popped up for some air
For his skin,
And afar, on the nearby land a rare
And larger kind.
He dropped back down again,
Leaned towards his tasty friend
And spoke in froglike tones
About the aggressive hormones
Necessary to vandalise
The false idols of the
Big fools.

But suddenly from the air outside
A width of water opened wide,
And as it got brighter
A shape from out the light
Descended to the two.
It slopped and hopped on the
Water gravel bed,
Bloated to offend,
Intellectually incompatible
With the frog and his friend.

The frog withdrew a step,
A skip, a jump or two,
And back sided the prawn
In hot water,
It was the contemporary toad
Who sloth before them.

Thick of skull
And thick around,
The largest rival to be found.
He spoke quite slow,
But so direct,
He had discovered that he was next.
He asked why,
But the frog could not deny
That it was true.

You see they had decided to purge
The water,
And redeploy those that ought
Not to be seen frolicking
In the underwater scene
With the rubber monoliths
Every Sunday;
In the morning rays
With their rope nets,
And therefore he was next.
The toad bloated again,
Intellectually incompatible
With the frog and his friend.

The toad broke down,
To his haunches he fell,
To the same spot where
The prawn was entrenched,
And asked
What was the shell fish connection?
The frog confirmed
That their vote had been sought in order
To help them in the forthcoming election,
And pass the official injunction
To class the toads function
As a legal rich man’s luncheon,
And have nothing to do with them
When they wanted elsewhere’s help,
And kick them out of the froth
And into the above
To cement their love
With their
Intellectually compatible equals.

A good tale,
Straightforward end,
The toad ran screaming,
His hide a’ steaming,
To find another story,
With elocution lessons to gain,
Intellectually incompatible
With his water land kin.