Sketching In The Platypus Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

The Platypus is not monotonous
It’s at the opposite extreme.
In fact it’s quite preposterous,
This jumbled bush-land monotreme.

As with the curious brontosaurus
The platypus lays eggs
But is twenty meters shorter
And has stingers on its legs

The hippopotamus is perhaps analogous
In haunting stream and creek
Excepting an extra 4 tons gross
And any signs of fins or beak.

The whale shark, also relatively enormous
Shares sounding through its nose
But takes in plankton through a sluice
Discarding worms the sieving may disclose.

The elephant gives further room to pause
But diverges most dissimilarly
It does without wet fur or claws
And has big ears that radiate capillary.

It seems that likenesses are of little use
And similes just make plus the fuss
When sketching in the platypus.