beamjockey (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} beamjockey) wrote,@ 2008-10-13 13:05:00 |
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| Entry tags: | elephant, eletelephony, laura, laura richards, richards, telephone |
Life Imitates Poetry, Pachyderm Dept.
Associated Press report:
The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers' crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a time. But this time a mobile phone card inserted in his collar sent rangers a text message. Lesowapir, an armed guard and a driver arrived in a jeep bristling with spotlights to frighten Kimani back into the Ol Pejeta conservancy.
Eletelephony
by Laura Elizabeth Richards
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! no! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)
Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee—
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)
