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...STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF OBERMANN by MATTHEW ARNOLD WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD by EUGENE FIELD THAT HOLY THING by GEORGE MACDONALD THE PICTURE OF LITTLE T.C. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS by ANDREW MARVELL DAFFODILS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH FOOTLIGHT MOTIFS: 1. MRS. VERNON CASTLE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |