looking for my island

I drew an island on the board
'egg'
Four students shouted in unison.
Yes, I am a fried egg
Looking for my island.


One day I scribbled an automobile
from a bird's eye view
four circles for tires
a stick figure, standing
under a panama hat
wearing hush puppies


Then there was a horse
an ugly mutation
of beaver mixing it up with an aardvark
bringing howls of protest and scorn
from thirteen year olds such is ridiculed.


Boats are easy with triangular masts
I can do a canoe
but put a human near it
it's time to wonder of such
comedy
confusion
consternation


To show where the th comes from I drew
a grotesque head from the side
with big teeth open wide
and a zucchini tongue
protruding out
the 'es' sound demonstrated
where the vegetable muscle
slithers down this abomination.


Everyone laughs, ok, let's practice.


(written in s. china 4.05)