Great Grey Grumpkin


from the ABC set Unordered Tales

The Great Grey Grumpkin

Sliding sleazy through the fronds, the Great Grey Grumpkins swim.
Their monstrous shape - Leviathan's - is dark, and long, and
grim.
In darkness, save for shining prawns and scabrous scaly worms,
The Great Grey Grumpkins quest about in search of pachyderms.

Their favourite food, the pachyderm, is very rarely seen,
They have to eat the scaly worms (like noodles but bright green).

There is a Grumpkin legend, passed on from thing to thing,
That once a pachyderm sank down, with grey and wrinkled skin.

Generations have passed by and I'm not overstating:-

Watch out, you juicy pachyderms!

THE GRUMPKINS ALL ARE WAITING!

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