Handsome Guys And Crocodiles Poem by Margaret Alice Second

What's it with handsome guys and crocodiles?

Just switched on to watch while pasting labels on files
and suddenly crocodiles pulled me out of the black hole
which had been sucking all books into its unfathomable
depths - preventing the books pulling me out instead

All at once I felt at fine, safe in my own skin, peace of
mind as soft contentment bubbled up after living through
a miserable day where I shuffled along like a long-dead
zombie, more depressed than the paranoid android

From Hitchhiker's Guide; next episode in TV series, an
alligator covered in mud among angry Tasmanian devils'
growling; then Mr Handsome spending the night feeding
small animals brought home from the zoo; his poor wife

I'm perfectly all right seeing how good life is, ready to
share this with all those with black holes in their heads
and guess - it's Gator Boys next, watching them saving
more alligators and crocodiles - my evening a success!