Donkey

How happy is the milch camel!

Does the camel make you shiver?

does it?

A moke, however hard it tries,

Will always be lean.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the moke,

Gently it goes - the scrawny, the wizen, the stringy.

When I think of the burro, I see a brown table.

A burro is muzzy. a burro is addled,

a burro is muddled, however.

I saw the the cunning dupe of my generation destroyed,

How I mourned the goat.

Does the goat make you shiver?

does it?

A mule, however hard it tries,

Will always be dun.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the mule,

Gently it goes - the frustrate, the chromatic, the colored.

One afternoon I said to myself,

"Why isn't the butter more red?"

Does the butter make you shiver?

does it?