Ode to a Monitor Lizard - rhyming doggerel

  

Lawrence Hall

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Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

Ode to a Monitor Lizard

 

I saw a picture of a monitor lizard

Its skin is scaley and its tongue is scissored

I’d back away from that wrinkly old wizard -

I don’t want to be ground up in its gizzard!