Believe It Or Not Poem by Pradip Chattopadhyay

Believe It Or Not

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When he felt horses were a passe
bought a pair of zebra from the zoo
got them hitched to his carriage
believe it or not it's true!

Soon he got a trainer on hire
to train them to pull his car
the news soon got into the press
he had put the zebras on harness!

The man given easily to caprice
never once felt the slightest remorse
for ruining those dumb animal's peace
the zebra could not be a striped horse!

One of the pair died shortly
the other was left to pull his car
he would be seen riding merrily
dressed in his royal attire!

To him a sport he was never ashamed
used to boast of his crudely callous fun
a zebra like a horse though can't be tamed
with his carriage had to make a fast run!

Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: history
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
One zamindar of Calcutta rode in a brougham carriage that was drawn by Zebras instead of horses. He had many horses of high pedigrees in his stables but being an impulsive man in nature, he bought a pair of zebra from Zoological Gardens, Calcutta @ Rs.6000/- in 1935. One of them died shortly. A photo was published in The Statesman in 1936 with the caption, “An Indian gentleman has trained his Zebra, to draw his carriage and is here seen in his strange Equipage, near the Eden Gardens, Calcutta.'
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