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Patience
Dear Patience was a hasty girl
Whose rising claim to fame
Was throwing toys and
tantrums and
Not acting like her name.
And when she didn’t get her
way,
She’d stomp her little feet
Or stick out her big, nasty
tongue
At any one she’d meet.
One day she whined and cried
out loud
“I wanna see the zoo!”
So off they drove to make the
trip
Before her temper grew.
While father treated her to
sweets
And bunches of balloons,
She teased the wading polar
bears
And scared the young baboons.
Distracted by a tiger’s roar
She ran on towards the cage,
Enchanted by his fiery stripes
Zigzagging ‘cross the stage.
“Oooohhh, can I pet the pretty
cat
And give him some popcorn?”
When mother firmly told her
“No,”
She scowled at her with scorn.
“Alright, alright,” her mother
said.
“Just don’t go in the pen.”
But no one read the posted
sign-
“All Tigers Feed at 10”
Dear Patience did not stop to
think
That tiger wasn’t tame,
And soon enough she earned
herself
A brand new claim to fame.
When she waltzed in the cage
and said,
“Sit down, big tiger, sit.”-
Her parents lost their Patience
and
Now tiger’s full of it!
By Susan Burd © 2011
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