TO KATAWANGADOO – AND BACK !

Where bananas straighten out by the hour

And the stinging coconut slowly loses its hair,

Have you been there?

I was – I swear!

Nuts there swell, shiver and grow sour,

Sad gorillas stare

At aero–bats sailing backwards through the air –

For a dare!

Swamps giggle as fish cower,

Sly crocodiles, weeping, glare

At snide parrots who don’t give a care

Because there’s zillions of them there.

Slimy waterfalls freeze, stumpy giraffes glower

And whistle a soft tune – so sweet and rare –

Before … splat! They tumble into the spider’s

snare:

YES, I WAS THERE!