Short Keratin Poems

Our hooves, claws, horns and fingernails
To pick up objects like straw in bales,
Made of keratin, rarely affected by ails,
Helps us to raise our boats with fine sails....

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shiny rhinoceros horns on your hands 
hair grows in beautiful strands 
not horn but nails and same as hair 
your flesh ripped by white black bear 
spirit stole your life 
and for lunch ate your wife...

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Her body produced more keratin than most
As her first cousin I often did kind of boast. 
We called her turtle girl in honor of her shell
A cool hiding place for her head to hide and dwell.

I wish I could bring in my legs too she often said.
She was never able to until a day before she was dead.
I thought of her for years after her death and quite often 
Especially how her tail stuck out of the side of her coffin...

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