Poem by Ogden Nash

The Hippopotamus

Behold the hippopotamus!
We laugh at how he looks to us,
And yet in moments dank and grim,
I wonder how we look to him.
Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus!
We really look all right to us,
As you no doubt delight the eye
Of other hippopotami.

1. Everybody Tells Me Everything
2. Kipling's Vermont
3. To My Valentine
4. The Perfect Husband
5. The Abominable Snowman

Thomas Eliot The Hippopotamus ("The broad-backed hippopotamus")

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