Ima Ryma Poems

Living at the Lincoln Park Zoo,
This zebra has the chance to play
In winter's wonderland, I do,
In lots of snow all night and day.
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Joseph Yule, Jr., the year born
1920 to vaudeville folks.
At 14 months on stage he'd horn
The spotlight. First talked telling jokes.
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U.S. women make less than men
In compensation for same job.
This is the way it's always been,
Even though tiz jawed 'bout a gob.
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'Twas in the year two thousand nine,
Prez Obama was on T.V.
A house fly flew in a fly line.
The Prez did swat. The fly dead be.
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At the Lincoln Park Zoo, it's me
In the African Journey yard,
A red river hog named Lily.
I'm first to see - quite avant garde.
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He was born with a silver spoon,
And turned that spoon into more gold,
Became the world's richest tycoon,
Doing his big biz brash and bold.
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The Founding Fathers, WASPs and all
Were who they were, did what they did,
Played at their game, then threw the ball
From I'm done dad - you do it kid.
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The Tyrant ordered a machine
Be built to burn in such a way,
That fear and pain forged 'twixt and 'tween,
Roasting the victim in do slay.
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Filmmakers film the wilderness,
In hope that such will help persuade
To preserve more, to destroy less.
But where there's money to be made,
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It was a December/May match.
I was December, he was May.
Though a bit gray I was a catch,
In a sexy maternal way.
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