Pylimitics

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Rabbits and Squirrels

Rabbits are bad
But squirrels are worse
Rabbits are quiet
But squirrels can curse!

My sister and I
Can’t abide either sort
And we chase them away.
It’s a job and a sport.

I don’t try to bite them
But Hayley did once
Cause she’s fast, and the rabbit
Was kind of a dunce

Who didn’t quite get
That Hayley is quicker
And also an excellent
Shorty-cut picker.

But when Hayley caught one
She sent it away
“That dumb rabbit,” said Hayley,
“Didn’t know how to play.”

“He just sat there,”
She said, “even when I yelled ‘tag!’”
“Didn’t say ‘yeah you won,’
Didn’t give me a wag.”

So now we just chase them
Right back to their house.
A rabbit’s as useless
As a bird or a mouse.

-Chocolate



About Me

I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.