On Marmosets
Eglantine the Marmoset had
twenty-seven toes.
She also was a scruffy git
and always looked morose.
Esmerelda Blenkinsop
was her father's name.
He rode a big red parachute,
and kept flies that were tame.
Eglantines yellow beard
grew underneath her chin,
But it wasn't really big enough
to keep the badgers in.
Her mother was a vagabond
who lived upon the heath,
And kept a pair of wildebeest
chained to her front teeth.
Eglantine had long blue hair
that grew down to her feet,
But she often used to wear a wig
and dress up in a sheet.
ŠThe Poetic Priestess 1994