My Prehensile Tail

Oh, to swing from jungle trees,
Mother Nature's flying trapeze.
I'd doff my shirt, my pants, my tie,
and to the Amazon I'd fly, 
where I would gladly make avail 
of my own prehensile tail.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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Wolf Avatar
January 1, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Making neither pretensile nor bones about this one, eh, Explorer?
Crandall Avatar
January 2, 2026 at 8:41 PM
hahaha, it wasn't until I after I wrote this that someone might take this in that direction. :-))
Lawless Avatar
January 1, 2026 at 5:06 PM
on many days as an ironworker I rued the lack thereof....appreciate the humor David
Crandall Avatar
January 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
whoa, ironworker, that sounds scary - I don't think I could do anything like that...I can only think about those kinds of things nowadays - as a kid that was different.
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