Every week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme is Missing: Lost At The Zoo.
MIA AT THE ZOO — TERRIFYING — INEXPLICABLE
Many true poets claim to have been lost and suffering souls, but how many have really been Missing — LOST — at the Peoria Municipal Zoo from 10:34 am until nearly dark, parents teachers and paramedics deployed in a frantic cage-by-cage search, larger carnivore stools squeezed and tweezered, poor youthful poet imagined swallowed by bear, lion, or dinosaur, or else hustled into a prairie dog warren, even taken in by kind penguins? If you, dear poet, have not ever been Missing: Lost At The Zoo, you may want to consider unstringing your banjo, buying a blue shlushie or pink cotton candy, and taking a stroll through the real ground zero of this week’s theme: Missing At The Zoo, which is to say MIA And Presumed Dead In The Snakehouse.
LITTLE DAVID GREENER LOVES SNAKES
It is true that, like many of our past themes, Missing: Lost In The Zoo is a fairly abstract one. Many poets who write rhyming poetry may not be prepared to riff off this particular theme. Whatchu going to say, after all, When I was missing in the zoo / People dunno what to do? Hey actually that rhymes, this might be easier than you thought!
Little David Greener, of course, generally goes missing in the Snake House. That is because he loves snakes and trails behind the other third graders, and goes missing.
DOES CHARLIE SHEEN EVER GO MISSING AT THE ZOO
Charlie has had incidents in which he goes missing for weeks or months, but that is usually in Funderland Luxury Drug & Alcohol Rehab Center, although as far as we know he usually only ever enters those confines disguised as a clown or plumber in order to entertain the child actors, such compassion and charisma.
Wherever you are this week, don’t go missing. And if you are in Peoria, just go catch a movie or something.
Join Teddy every week as he goes stalking the internet in search of new Themes.
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