Classic Poem

The blank-looking elephant in the Central Park Zoo,
Picks up skillfully all the coppers and nickels that are thrown to him,
With the extraordinarily big tip of his nose,
And drops them with a clink, into the elephant's piggy bank above.

From time to time he rolls his red eyes and thrusts out his nose,
And says to this Jap as " they " call me, gimme some nickels
That's what the elephant says,
Pleased at hearing him say it, I throw out some more nickels

A blank-looking elephant, product of India,
A lonely young man, product of Japan
The crowd " they " had better have a look-see at
Why the two of us are so friendly.

Bathed in the rays of the setting sun, I take a walk through Central Park,
And an obelisk brought from the Nile looks at me,
Ah, there's someone else who is angry
Returning to his attic " their " Jap lashes at his own blood.