A doggerel series
about the countries of the world.
Zimbabwe.
A landlocked land in Africa—
But near the eastern coast.
Diversity in wildlife there—
It really has the most.
It once was called Rhodesia when
I was a little lad—
A colony of England—oh,
A rocky past it had!
Declared its independence back
In 1965.
It took a while for it to grow—
It still has yet to thrive.
Its minerals and tourists—that’s
What makes the money flow.
The gold—and all those animals—
Those BIG ones, don’t you know?
Let’s talk about those animals—
In this, our final post,
For animals are really what
Will interest us the most.
Well, how about an elephant?
A hippo—rhino, too.
A lion, cheetah, leopard—Yo,
Is that enough for you?
A hedgehog and a zebra, yes—
Those two are there as well,
And many other wild things that
I have no time to tell.
But let’s sail off from Africa
Aboard our weary ship—
And ruminate a bit about
This far too lengthy trip!
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