Poem: Why the Camel is a Grump

The Bactrian camel has two humps

And really is an awful grump.

He bites, he swears, he sometimes spits,

And has enormous hissy-fits.

Those that meet him never ponder,

Reason why, or even wonder

Why this creature with two humps

Is always right down in the dumps.

Is it just because the land

He walks upon is rather bland?

Is is just because (or not)

The land is sometimes very hot?

Maybe it's because the snows

Sometimes burn his tender toes.

Perhaps the load he bears is stacked

So high it hurts his camel back.

Not one of these, my friends, I know,

Is the cause of Camel's woe.

The reason why he's such a grump

Is because he cannot jump.

Not for him the Fosbury Flop

Or standing on one leg to hop.

And, for him, there is no hope

Of mastering a skipping rope.

The skipping songs he learned by heart

Will never, ever be a part

Of any kind of skipping game-

And Camel knows this, to his shame.

When Camel bites or swears or spits

Or has another hissy-fit,

Try your hardest to be kind,

Now you know what's on his mind.

The Bactrian camel has two humps.

He also is the biggest grump-

Not because he's just a chump-

It is because he cannot jump.

© Tracey Meredith 2015

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