#454
Little Brother
Little Simon, out from under,
Looking long and hale,
Like a well-packed sausage,
With a shapely tail.
Little Simon, out from under,
Glowing in the light,
Like a well-fed ground hog
Who can't tell wrong from right.
ground hog
Ground Hog Day Activity...
#187
Names
Pennsylvania's "Punxsutawney Phil"
Lives within a Punxsutawney hill
At a place named Gobbler's Knob.
They should have called him "Punxsutawney Bob"!
West Virginia's beast is "French Creek Freddie,"
A fat ground hog who's always ready,
For he has a strong conviction
To make a yearly bold prediction.
Ohio's "Buckeye Chuck"
Has had a run of awful luck:
First off New York stole his name;
Then Georgia stole his ground hog fame.
New York's "Chuck" is "Charles G. Hogg,"
While Georgia just misnamed a dog:
General Beauregard (something) Lee,
A name you can't say trippingly.
The problem up and down the line
Is using ground hogs for a sign:
Might as well read Wittgenstein
Or hire a prickly porcupine.