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Poetry for the funny bone
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Saffron
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 Poetry for the funny bone Hippos on Holiday - Billy Collins
is not really the title of a movie
but if it was I would be sure to see it.
I love their short legs and big heads,
the whole hippo look.
Hundreds of them would frolic
in the mud of a wide, slow-moving river,
and I would eat my popcorn
in the dark of a neighborhood theater.
When they opened their enormous mouths
lined with big stubby teeth
I would drink my enormous Coke.
I would be both in my seat
and in the water playing with the hippos,
which is the way it is
with a truly great movie.
Only a mean-spirited reviewer
would ask on holiday from what?
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Suzanne
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hippos http://www.minibite.com/christmas/hippo.htm
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Gotta love hippos! 
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Saffron
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Thanks, Suzanne, for adding to my new thread. I really need to laugh these days; life has gotten far too serious and stressful.
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“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.”
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth (1800)
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Saffron
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I am in such need of funny, please, oh please, someone post me a bone.
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“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.”
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth (1800)
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