Kite

I RHYME WITHOUT REASON
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KITE

Young Ken was incredibly slight;

He was skinny and tiny and light.

I know it sounds weird

But he's now disappeared,

Hanging-on to the end of a kite!

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See my blog of 11/1/10 to learn more about this alphabetical meme.

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An old one for good measure.

KANGAROOS!

Next time you meet a kangaroo,

Possibly when you're at the zoo,

Consider its intrinsic worth

As a saviour of the earth!

I learnt today that its 'emissions'

Are favourable to earth's conditions,

Unlike those of the dairy cow,

Who's fallen out of favour now.

We like its milk and gentle eyes

But it's pretty lethal otherwise.

We're grateful for the milk and cream

But we aren't too pleased when it 'lets off steam!'

Sadly the gentle creature tends

To exhale methane from both ends!

Methane, as I'm sure you know,

From items on the radio,

Is a really nasty 'greenhouse' gas.

(Forgive me for being rather crass!)

A quarter of all mankind's pollution,

Comes from the cattles' contribution!

But here's the really important news ...

Cows eat grass as do kangaroos:

But the latter, 'emitting' with might and main,

Never produce any bad methane!

It seems bacteria deep inside

Keeps their gases purified!

So what of the future? Are we needing

The useful results of inter-breeding?

Or can there be a neat correction

With a pro-bacterial injection?

Will cows, world-wide, soon be replaced?

Will human-beings change their taste

To kangaroo milk, cream and steak?

It'll be an enormous change to make!

Cows just stand and ruminate;

Kangaroos are less sedate!

Imagine herds of bounding creatures

With very, let's say, 'quirky' features,

Living behind enormous fences

Built as part of a farm's defences!

Will kangaroos become, I wonder,

Not just an oddity from Down Under,

But will we one day find them swarming,

The shock troops defeating Global Warming?

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