Don’t’ Feed the Beast
When Sam Blue went to the zoo
He was told one thing never to do
Never feed the beasts and creatures
So on a trip with his class from school
Sam planned to follow this rule
He’d listen to the field trip teachers
Zoo animals, however
Are persuasive and clever
Sam would be challenged indeed
Always in the eating mood
Always looking for some food
Zoo animals always want to feed
There were vampire bats in their habitats
Gators, wolves and saber toothed cats
They all looked for snacks as they went prowling
Possum swung through trees like a flying trapeze
Trying to keep up with the chimpanzees
Their stomachs growled like the wolves howling
The Elephant had a clogged up trunk
He went and sniffed up a stinky skunk
He thought it was cheese, one of the smelly types
The hawks, the fox and the cockatoos
Stole snacks from the folks watching kangaroos
Lions watched zebras like they were steaks with stripes
Aardvarks ate mice droppings, guessing they were ants
The Ox dreamt of salad toppings, dressing and plants
He dreamt as he ate his boring oats
Raccoons and baboons stared through the glass
Waiting for people with balloons to pass
They thought balloons were fruit that floats
The hyenas laughed their hyena laughs
As they watched all the hungry giraffes
Eat flowers from the terrariums
The polar bears would sit and stare
Stare at confetti’s of fish everywhere
As if they were appetizers in aquariums
Flies on the hogs got eaten by frogs
Beavers ate hotdogs made out of logs
As people passed with their purses and packs
On the backs of hippos throughout the day
Birds ate bugs like they were at a buffet
Monkeys reached out to grab people’s snacks
As Sam ate his lunch, with every treat
The beasts he was watching, watched him eat
Each one wanted some
Snacks, he had plenty, treats, he had many
He didn’t give those animals any
Nothing, none, not even a crumb
They came to a cage, at the end of the day
The cage where the Grizzly Lizards stay
He could hear them breathing from where he stood.
“Don’t feed the animals”, read all of the signs
But Sam couldn’t see past the trees and the vines
So he went up to the cage, close as he could
Like a curtain, the vines cleared
Over Sam, a beast appeared
Breathe steaming down, through a hungry grin
Before Sam could catch glance
A scaly claw grabbed his pants
And pulled him right in
After a tug and a pull, the beast swallowed Sam whole
Then scurried along happy and full
Sam’s snacks remained under that sign on the wall
Don’t feed the animals, read the signs overhead
Sam didn’t mean to, but he did instead
…..He fed the animals after all