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Rated: E · Poetry · Nature · #2254870
Ode to an oddity
The Platypus

A wonderful creature, the platypus;
with lineage more murky than obvious.
From a face like a duck,
to the beaver-tail butt,
its pedigree reads like an omnibus.


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