At the Central Park Zoo
While watching the zookeeper feed
The penguins was pleasing, indeed.
A simple technique –
One fish for each beak
Seemed to work without witnessing greed.
The turtles and ducks were fed, too,
By a pond that’s a part of the zoo.
A big bowl filled with grain
Nestled on their terrain
But they weren’t the eaters on view.
For two pigeons were chomping away
And to add to that urban display
Into this habitat
Crawled the skeeviest rat
Who decided he might as well stay.
Just a typical day in the park
Where all creatures once housed in the ark
Coexist and live free
To a certain degree,
Though I wish some would stay in the dark!
Copyright © Ilene Bauer | Year Posted 2017
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