The Phone-Billed Platypus

Duck-Billed Platypus by Carol ina Sartor

AnElephantCant be sure about anything
Regarding this most bizarre of all nature’s creatures
Odder than a golf-mad giraffe
Or a heffelump who is daft
He discusses the famously incomprehensible duck-billed platypus

He knows that the plural is obviously platypuseresses
And that it only exists somewhere Down Under
It has venomous spurs on its hind legs
It’s a mammal who lays eggs
It rips all of Ma Nature’s preconceptions asunder

Its home is astonishing astounding Australia
Where every other beastie’s name begins with a ‘K’
Kookaburra Kangaroo
Koala Dodo too
Not only that but it is unfortunately quite far away

AnElephantCant help pondering the prefix ‘duck-billed’
Is there a variety of platypus that is goose- or perhaps phone-
Or a species sparrow-beaked
Or even hen-pecked
AnElephant thinks that like the Tasmanian Devil it stands all alone

He wonders if it makes a nice pet for the kiddies
Like a goldfish a hamster or a rock
A cat or a horse
A dog called Eros
Can you put springs on its webbed feet and take it for a walk

AnElephant doesn’t know if it has any natural enemies
Or if this mystical animal is omnipotent
Like the cool unicorn
Or magical Puff from the song
AnElephant knows it is not always easy to be different