The Joy of Toppopotamuses
My collection of monitor-top
hippopotomuses
Speaks to their deserved role
As the translator's mascot,
Great rollers and roilers in
fluid words,
Those who emerge from the shallows
To enunciate large graces
In tones that bear little rebuke
From the scolders
Who subsist remora-like
On their rich ecology.
- David Mtchell
Painting
by Ken Peters
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