Fiction Friday: A Night at the Zoo

This Week’s Theme: Tell about your character's feelings toward animals and why she feels that way. A Night at the Zoo 3/14/2008 (Monday light verse, special Friday edition) Gwendolyn Rice thought it would be nice to go with her mom to the zoo. She begged and she pleaded cuz she really needed to find out what animals do. Her parents were vegans (just like her friend Megan's) so Gwendolyn hadn't a clue. But old Missus Rice said, "Sorry, no dice," while stirring her lima bean stew. Well, Gwen was no quitter and when the urge bit her she snuck out at quarter til two. She felt like a sinner and thought she'd miss dinner but knew what she needed to do. She rode cross the city while humming a ditty of lions and rabbits and gnu. She got to the gate at a quarter til eight, and the man there was closing the zoo. She snuck past that guard and into the yard just as the "we're closed" whistle blew. Now Gwendolyn Rice, in two winks and a trice, around all the cages she flew. She saw bears, fox, and minks, a giraffe and a lynx, and even a hippo or two. She saw monkeys and birds and elephant turds and llamas and three kangaroo. She saw snakes eating mice while gorilla picked lice, and sad grazed a lone caribou. She went round and round, taking in every sound, every odor and all the sights, too, and when she was done she'd had so much fun she just couldn't utter adieu. So Gwen thought she'd stay til the break of the day even though she'd be way overdue. And then she thought, "Gee, don't they want to be free? These animals are people, too!" So around them she walked, to each inmate she talked, and at each the latch she'd undo, To be nice she was tryin' when she let loose the lion but it wasn't a good thing to do Cuz the lion thought, "Nice, I so rarely get Rice as dessert for my beef brisket stew." One of my writing goals for 2008 is to write at least one light verse or poem every week in addition to my haiku wednesday and fiction friday posts. I will try to do this on Mondays.
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