My Elephant is Missing

I cannot find my elephant.
He must have run away.
He isn't on the sofa
where he promised he would stay.

I've looked around the living room,
the kitchen and the hall.
My elephant is missing
and I'm not sure who to call.

I'll need to get a bloodhound
who can track him by his scent,
or hire a house detective
to discover where he went.

He isn't in the basement
or the attic or the yard.
You'd think, to find an elephant
would not be quite so hard.

Perhaps I'll make some posters,
and I'll offer a reward.
I'd make it more, but fifty cents
is all I can afford.

If you should see my elephant,
he answers to "Jerome."
Please tell him that I miss him
and I wish he'd come back home.

He knows the way.  It's up the street
and down our garden path.
And next time I won't warn him
when it's time to take his bath.

--Kenn Nesbitt

Copyright © 2004 Kenn Nesbitt
All Rights Reserved

Comments

	On Aug 14, 2008 Muneeb from london wrote: this poem was good and cool but the silly people that have commeted like that u cant lose your elephant or somefing else they arev ideots and thats sit
	On Jul 14, 2008 hassan godva from india wrote: u cant lose A BLADEY ELEPHANT
	On Jul 9, 2008 OSAMA BIN LADEN from iraq wrote: i will kill you all! i will bomb you!!!
	On Jun 24, 2008 ella belle from u.a.e wrote: you cannot lose an elephant they are too big!
	On Jun 12, 2008 You Know Who from USA wrote: My BFF is doing this poem for English class. She has over 150 fake elephants in her room. She's obsessed!

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