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Category: Funny Animal Poems Classic humorous and funny poems about animals, snakes, lions, cats, birds, frogs, and more. THE CATFISH he saddest fish that swims the briny ocean,
The Catfish I bewail.
I cannot even think without emotion
Of his distressful tail.
When with my pencil once I tried to draw one,
(I dare not show it here)
Mayhap it is because I never saw one,
The picture looked so queer.
I vision him half feline and half fishy,
A paradox in twins,
Unmixable as vitriol and vichy--
A thing of fur and fins.
A feline Tantalus, forever chasing
His fishy self to rend;
His finny self forever self-effacing
In circles without end.
This tale may have a Moral running through it
Aesop had in his;
If so, dear reader, you are welcome to it,
If you know what it is!
Oliver Herford.
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