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ABC MARCH


One, two, three,
What do I see?
A circle of animals
Meeting with me.
An alligator from Arkansas sits it a tree;
A bat from Bowsman hangs obliviously.
A cheetah from Chataqua races some laps.
While dingo from Darwin darts through the gaps.
An egret from the Everglades soars on the wing
While the flamingo fom Florida has a fabulous fling.
The gazelle from Giza gallops across the deserts
And the hyena from Hajidah howls till he hurts
An ibex from Iberia cheers ole
For the jerboa from Jerusalem jumping in the fray
While she cuddles a kinkajou from Kalamazoo. 
A lynx from Lynn Lake stalks the two
Martens from Mount McKinley, licking his chops gleefully.
A narwhal swam from Nome under the Arctic sea.
Senator Owl from Ottawa orates his views
While the peccary from Paraguay shines his shoes
A Queensland quokka comes from the Outback,
And the rail from Rhodesia stays on track.
The Saskatchewan squirrel brags about being an emblem
While the Tasmanian tiger wondered how to fry him.
The ukari detoured by way of Amazonia-Ubangar 
The vicuna toured him around Vallenar
The wombat hitchhiked by Winnibego
The xema sabini Alias Mr. X (Sabine's gull) preferred Xochimilco.
A yak bragged of snowboarding in the Mountains of Yablonovy,
While the zebra told of races on the plains of Zululandinder.

Stories of their lives are now unfurled,
I have 26 new friends from around the world.
                   


copyright 1999 by G. Walker-Hobbs. This poem may be not reproduced without written permission from the author.

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