hello amoeba I wish you were my pet <br />but you're not really big enough to be seen by the vet <br />are you? <br />you're a little blob of jelly <br />you've got no skin and bone <br />you're not a boy you're not a girl <br />and you're not on the telephone <br />I cannot get in touch with you <br />I cannot pull your leg <br />you look a bit like a fried egg <br />you're a long way down the ladder <br />that evolution trod <br />but you can eat with your feet <br />or to be more discreet <br />obtain food with your pseudopod <br />and you don't have to have a partner <br />to start a family <br />you can multiply by dividing <br />tra-la-la-la-lee <br />you don't get up in the morning <br />because you never go to bed <br />you've not got any genitalia <br />but you've got other bits instead <br />I saw you down the microscope <br />when I was just a lad <br />I told my mum about you <br />and then I told my dog <br />you're not heterosexual bisexual <br />transvestite transsexual <br />lesbian or gay <br />but you seem to do okay <br />it isn't rude to be an amoeba <br />in the nude <br />is it eh? <br />you're not so simple <br />you little protoplasmic pimple<br /><br />John Hegley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/amoeba/
