Have you ever seen?
A poem for fanciful grandchildren.
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Have you ever seen a parrot fight a carrot?
Have you ever seen a snail eat a whale?
Have you ever seen a snake slowly slide across a cake
With a candle burning brightly on his tail?
Have you ever seen a rhino chewing lino?
Have you ever seen a dog consume a log?
Have you ever seen a lion chase a man whose name is Brian
Whilst jumping like a half demented frog?
Have you ever seen a mussel in a tussle?
Have you ever seen a worm that didn't squirm?
Have you ever seen a squirrel, whose middle name was Cyril
Who was smaller than a microbe or a germ?
Have you ever seen a panda called Miranda?
Have you ever seen a sow who'd swear a vow?
Have you ever met a seagull who was braver than an eagle
And was capable of milking a small cow?
If any of these things you've seen, please tell me
I need to know just how and when and why
The facts you must relate them
And then we can debate them
I feel you might be telling me a lie
