Steep Sleep Poem by John Sensele

If the brown-bottomed baboon
Should watch a candid cartoon
It'd pull out of its cold cocoon
The randy raccoon.

If a trendy tycoon should be seen
Lampooning a gangling girl aged seventeen
Who works in his company canteen
Onlookers would sneer at the sordid scene.

If a bazaar brat should kill a grisly gnat
Together with a cute cat and a ribald rat
That proudly spat and sat
On the la-di-da loveseat, about him they'd chat.

If the virgin vagrant could peep
At the shaggy sheep he wished to keep
He'd probably call it a cunning creep in the jasmine jeep
And make it weep before it could sleep.