Circus Elephants Love Peanuts
by Kevin Rottweiler
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A free poetry chapbook about ... elephants: Look at the elephants, Enrolling in Bible school, Wanting to know about Moses, Loving to know about Noah, How many elephants were on the ark?
A free poetry chapbook about ... elephants. For a taste of what's inside, here's a verse from Kevin's poem, Bible School:
Peanut Butter Sandwiches
Enormous elephants at the zoo—
Big cow eyes looking at me
Wrinkled trunks lazy and exploring
Peanut butter sandwiches for me and you
Staggering like drunkards
High on peanut butter
Pay a dollar
To make them holler
Peanut butter sandwiches for me and you
Slippery stones and dinosaur bones
The zoo can be colorful
Candy land, fantasy land and animal farm
All in one place
Love in an elephant’s face
Peanut butter sandwiches for me and you
Like a dermatitis or psoriasis
Wrinkled in skin but bright in spirit
Children pay to feed the animals
One dollar to make them holler
Elephants trumpeting
Now it is no picnic
It could make you sick
The animal dung
Hardship of working on the farm
Hard work at the zoo
Peanut butter sandwiches for me and you
The Storm
Elephant heartbeats
Like a snare drum
Some of them drinking rum
Below deck aboard the ark
Moses and Noah running the boat
Trunks rubbing against
Icy port-hole windows
Jittery and nervous elephants
Like the first flight of
An amateur pilot
The sky is eternal
Now hailstones develop
The devil’s rhythm
Rattling the soul of
Peaceful elephant animals
One took a stand
Fighting for spiritual survival
Scratched the earth with
Big hooves
Pooping in terror
Salivating and navigating
Through a child’s eyes
Now yellow raincoats
Lined the deck
Life jackets of orange and red
Waves as big as skyscrapers
A Grand Canyon of water
The devil gives no sympathy
But God is listening
Jesus took control
Restoring the sight
To every elephant soul
Sinners beware of the water
Sinners beware of the water
Now elephants huddled
Together in prayer
And the light shined
