Last Laugh

I have just heard that the polar bear has just been placed on the "endangered species" list.

I am so sorry to hear this terrible news.

It seems that the polar ice is melting so fast now that the poor animals drown trying to swim from one iceberg to another as they have through the many ages of their species evolution.

And more terrible than this is the suspicion that this change in the world's climate is due to my own species' selfish acts.

Ourselves, the homo sapiens species, is probably also on some cosmic "endangered species" list since we seem to be responsible for so many biological disasters.

So here is my sad poem:

The Last Laugh Track

Ho, ho, ho, and hee, hee, hee!
One if by land and two if by sea!
Ha, ha, ha, and yuk, yuk, yuk!
If we’ve gotta run, let’s run amok!

Toes and heels, toes and heels!
Let’s slide on them banana peels!
Heels and toes, heels and toes,
Let’s put on glasses and a big, fake nose!

Chase us like the Keystone Kops!
Let’s us run until we drops!
We shakes our sacroiliacs!
We lives our lives like maniacs!

The bestest animal’s a giraffe!
The bestest medicine’s still a laff!
The wisest of us’s still a loon!
The greatest of us’s a baboon!

The bestest place that’s for a pie,
Is in my face and in your eye!
And if we gotta say goodbye,
Let’s us not say it with a sigh!

Let’s say it loud, let’s say it clear––
With dryfull eyes–– without a tear!
We lived and loved, we scrapped and fought,
We did just like we thought we ought!

We ran a good race tho’ we lost––
Our t’s are dotted and our i’s are crossed––
They can’t forget us if they try––
Fare well, so long, toodle-oo, goodbye!

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