<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384957" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I well recall (and who does not)<br>The circus bill-board hippopotamus,<br>whose wide distended jaws<br>For fear and terror were good cause.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That month, that vasty carmine cave,<br>Could munch with ease a Nubian slave;<br>In fact, the bill-board hippopot-<br>amus could bolt a house and lot!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wide opened, that tremendous mouth<br>Obscured three-quarters of the south<br>Side of Schmidt’s barn, and promised me<br>Thrills, shocks, delights and ecstasy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then, alas! what sad non plus<br>The living hippopotamus!<br>’Twas but a stupid, sodden lump<br>As thrilling as an old elm stump.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its mouth—unreasonably small—<br>The hippo opened not at all,<br>Or, if it did, it was about<br>As thrilling as a teapot spout.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The Crimson Junk, by Doris Watt,<br>I’ve read it. Who, I pray, has not?<br>Bill Wastel, by C. Marrow. The<br>Plaid Cowslip. And The Hocking Lee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Fallow Field, by Sally Loo;<br>The Rose in Chains. I’ve read that too;<br>I’ve read them all for promised treat<br>Of thrills, emotions, tremblings sweet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The bill-board hippopotamus<br>It was a wild, uprageous cuss—<br>The real one? Well—Can you recall<br>That it had any mouth at all?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ellis+Parker+Butler">Ellis Parker Butler</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384957" data-title="Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels de Ellis Parker Butler" data-description="(with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper) I well recall (and who does not) The circus bill-board hippopotamus, whose wide distended jaws For fear and terror were good cause. That month, that vasty carmine cave, Could munch with ease a Nubian sla..."></div> </div> </div>

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