I love ToysRus' Giraffe but I want a Rhino :)!
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For my lead car I chose rhino
(thought it safer than a dino).
our load is larger than a barge.
Our Rosy Rhino is so blue
her straying tears caused floods, a few.
Stay out of her way, she’s charging
some more miles on her Visa.

I’ve had to pay for damaged roads
(especially when her nose she blows).
She seems to think my money grows.
I wish now to be ‘hippo-free’
she’s crying so hard we can’t see.
Rose might as well go pack her trunk
as all she touches goes kerplunk.

We went to Solvang … sunk a mill
with Rosy drunk. She took a spill.
We had to chase down that big wheel.
You should’ve heard those wooden shoes
as Dutch were run down. It was news!
We ate red cabbage, Rosey smelt.
Oh, the pile when she broke her belt!

We had to run from the posse
(nearly ran to Chillicothe)
all because Rose was so sloppy.
Soon we’ll leave on a safari
to drop Rose and say “So sorry!”
The simple truth: she’s expensive
and she pouts too much: is pensive.

copyright 2003 Sandra S. Corona
poem previously posted; I just recently finished coloring the b/w art