Poem by Bobby Goosey, "Elephantiasis"

 

Bobby Lee Goosey
 
A Warning Against Giving Pet Elephants Piggyback Rides, For This Practice May Lead to the                                                            Dread Disease of Elephantiasis
 

Wee little Tiatus had an elephant named Sialas,
Wee little Tiatus rode mounted on Sialas,
And sometimes, for fun, big ole Sialas rode Tiatus.
But elephant Sialas had elephantiasis,
And poor wee little Tiatus caught elephantiasis.
 
Take care and beware of dread elephantiasis,
Let us ride on their backs, let us walk them beside us,
But never, not ever let elephants ride us,
For when elephants ride us they cause elephantiasis,
This fact you can verify—ask poor wee sad Tiatus.
 
[from Bobby Goosey’s Compendium of Perfectly Sensible Nonsense]