November/December 2023

At the zoo, there are elephants And then there are elephant shrews People come to see the elephants Children point and throw peanuts Adults take pictures Elephants are on TV Ever seen a shrew on TV? And yet, the shrew is still there, looking at you, Afraid to snuggle up by an elephant’s foot Where it wants to be People look at the shrew and at the elephants. An elephant stomps: End of shrew. But When the people go home and Write in diaries about their trip They write about the elephants And lionsandtigersandbears But they also write about the shrew.