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I Want To Throttle That Darned Axolotl!

I have a friend called Bob Beaubobble who trains unusual pets to juggle assorted items frequently fumbled by freakish fish or octibumbles This hobby made him mucha dinero which he put in the bank ‘with interest’ to grow but while he was filling in all of the forms One creature escaped from under his arms Unseen in the dark, in the bank late at night It bypassed security through the intranet site And juggled and gambled to its hearts content playing with our pennies until they were spent Red-faced officials met the press in a panic George Bush sent more troops to Afghan and Iraq World leaders drew circles around toxic debt then pointed their fingers to the country that started it... The slimy old salamander sucks his cigar as he drives to his office in a luxury car. CEO though all see he's a feckless axolotl without any shame, just a shed load of bottle. He's safe in the knowledge, while his bank has been drained A huge bonus is scheduled to keep him retained and cash will be pumped from the taxpayers vains soon he’ll start things all over and gamble again.

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Date: 6/9/2016 2:25:00 PM
HI Angela - loved your poem - i found it while trying to trace a poem for my old dad. I just wondered if you know of a poem with any of this in it? "Today I saw 10,000 fish observing me with solemn eyes. In the aquarium And fish that floating on the tide transparent show their whole inside. Not Ray fish these but should you wish they may be termed the X-ray fish The salamander whose sole desire to be an axolotl fills its bosom with ext atic thrills His life's ambition forced to throttle
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Date: 2/18/2016 9:27:00 AM
Angela, Enjoyed the way you expressed every line. Please keep writing and sharing you're poetry. LOVE LINDA
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