SOMETHING YOU DON'T SEE EVERY DAY

Something You Don’t See Every Day

Have you ever seen butterflies spread upon bread?

or sat through a Hippo Ballet?

Do you think a skunk might -- if the price was just right –

scent her drawers with skunk cabbage sachet?

Would rainbow trout swim in a blue summer sky?

Could wingtip boots possibly learn how to fly?

Might a blue whale wear pink, do you think, to amuse?                        

Or a mermaid, wear fishnets and salt water shoes?

Would a chorus of hummingbirds hum a whole song?

Could an inchworm grow up to be twelve inches long?

While I’ve never seen any of these up ‘til now

it’s true that I really would like to -- and how!

And, if I ever saw one, I know what I’d say:

“There’s something, by gosh, you don’t see every day!”