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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/938797-Seychelles-the-Aldabra-giant-tortoise
by Rhyssa Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#938797 added July 30, 2018 at 12:07am
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Seychelles: the Aldabra giant tortoise
is there anything so sad
as a tortoise,
reaching up to grasp a leaf
between his beak,
and overturning . . .
he reaches his neck
out, trying to rock
on his shell, tries to build
momentum, but tortoise
shells are delicately balanced,
and a neck cannot
right such a heavy load.
and what should we do,
who spy him there? I wonder
who is kind enough to
turn him over again,
without laughing. without
taking a picture—and here
is me with a tortoise. we
saved him, of course.
afterward.

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