Living
The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Purple Cow)
From The Re-echo Club
In the old ten-acre pasture,
Lookin' eastward toward a tree,
There's a Purple Cow a-settin'
And I know she thinks of me.
For the wind is in the gum-tree,
And the hay is in the mow,
And the cow-bells are a-calling
"Come and see a Purple Cow!"
But I am not going now,
Not at present, anyhow,
For I am not fond of purple, and
I can't abide a cow;
No, I shall not go to-day,
Where the Purple Cattle play,
Though I think I'd rather see one
Than to be one, anyhow.
Codex Note
A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Rudyard Kipling as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Purple Cow).
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Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Purple Cow).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/262/.
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Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Purple Cow).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/262/.
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