The platypus unsettles those
Who organise their socks in rows
Who’d never sport a check with stripes
The this-goes-better-with-that types.
Is it both mammal and a bird?
The mere suggestion is absurd
A beaver that can lay an egg?
Now try and pull the other leg…
Although it doesn’t quack or cluck
At first glance, it might be a duck
But if so, what’s with all the fur?
And is that venom in its spur?
This oddity that broke the mold
Still has the boffins in its hold
And while some mock the platypus
One wonders what they think of us
Mr Ormsby At Large 
I’ve reposted ‘glamour puss’ with an Aussie tribute
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Thanks, buddy!
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Your speculation of what the beast thinks of us got me wondering. With webbed feet, poison spur, electrically sensitive duck like bill, he seems differently cuter than a Labradoodle, perhaps he’d see Oscar Pistorius in Lycra and me like wise?
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Just as long as the rest of us don’t have to see you in Lycra…
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