The Turtle And The Rabbit Poem by RIC BASTASA

you know the story
and i need not tell
it to you again
without necessarily
insulting your intelligence

(pause, chuckle, breathe
and wait
for your turn, let me continue)

but there is something you
still need to know
because i think you did not know it
their story did not really
end the way we were taught
with the ending
moral of the story

(don't raise your eyebrow
like the nike emblem
of the shoe,
relax, and you may
divert your attention,
as this is not important
anyway, but let me continue
still...)

well, this is it
the turtle is really a female
and the rabbit is a neuter
and know what?

(don't mind, this is still not important
you may read another poem
because this does not sound one
but let me continue
alone to say the usual ending
of this story...)

yes, the rabbit is a neuter
and the turtle is a female and
yes, they lived happily everafter!