Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ZOO, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poet's Biography First Line: I scarcely think / I like the zoo / as much as other / people do Last Line: People do. Subject(s): Animals; Zoos | ||||||||
ISCARCELY think I like the Zoo as much as other people do. First when I see the elephants, they seem in trouble with their pants, and then the hippopotamus says, "Who in blazes made me thus?" And I observe the chimpanzee thanking his God he's not like me. While all varieties of cat, make me feel dumpy, coarse, and fat. And that's not all! The eagles make me stare as though my heart would break at the great spaces of the air. And why? it isn't my affair if hippo is a sort of evil joke perpetrated by the devil, and of all brokenhearted things the brokenest are captive wings! And yet I cannot like the Zoo as much as other people do. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SARAJEVO ZOO by GLYN MAXWELL PETE AT THE ZOO by GWENDOLYN BROOKS THE ST. LOUIS ZOO by CAROL FROST THE HOOLIGAN ZOO by PETER JOHNSON AT THE ZOO IN SPAIN by CLARENCE MAJOR CLOSING TIME AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO by KAREN SWENSON BEAUTY AND THE BEAST by ELEANOR WILNER THOUGHTS IN A ZOO by COUNTEE CULLEN TREAD THE DARK: 51 by DAVID IGNATOW |
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