tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867895871131035351.post8970769647291558678..comments2023-03-01T09:21:38.570+01:00Comments on The world on a bike: Awesome!Franshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00548124207261405787noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867895871131035351.post-76120105845997913552013-01-27T14:55:36.607+01:002013-01-27T14:55:36.607+01:00That amazing creature has tickled the fancy of a f...That amazing creature has tickled the fancy of a few poets:<br /><br />How God made The Duck Billed Platypus<br />By Pam Ayers<br /><br />The duck-billed platypus, small aquatic friend<br />Made from the pieces God had over at the end.<br />According to His reckoning (He'd not been wrong before)<br />He hadn't made enough: He needed one mammal more.<br /><br />He studied all the corners in His cupboard large and bare<br />A little foot here, and a little nose there,<br />A scrap of fur, a feather, nothing anyone would miss<br />And God said, "Oh Good God... Yes?..... What can I make out of this?"<br /><br />There was a funny flat tail and a great enormous beak<br />Which had lain in the cupboard for a year and a week.<br />There were four webbed feet in the manner of a duck<br />And hanging on a peg, a furry overcoat for luck!<br /><br />So the turn of the platypus came to be fitted<br />God sat him down and honestly admitted<br />That the finished platypus might appear a little odd,<br />'But look on the bright side of it,' said God.<br /><br />'You can swim in the river, you can paddle in the creek,<br />You can tackle anybody with a great big beak,<br />There's a tail for a rudder or alternatively legs<br />And by way of consolation you've got babies and eggs.'<br /><br />So God took all the pieces into Workshop One<br />And there he told the men the sort of thing he wanted done.<br />The Carpenter and Plumber stroked the platypus's neck<br />And said, "Don't you upset him, he cant run, but he can peck!"<br /><br />So the platypus was made, and his beak was firmly rooted<br />And God found him a home where he would not be persecuted.<br />They packed him up and sent him with his tail neatly furled<br />In a brown paper parcel marked "Australia, The World.<br /><br />and a shorty from Ogden Nash:<br />I like the duck-billed platypus<br />Because it is anomalous.<br />I like the way it raises its family,<br />Partly birdly, partly mammally.<br />I like its independent attitude.<br />Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude. ibbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12986699602717716418noreply@blogger.com