:date: 2019-01-14
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The Hippopotamus
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:raw-html:`©` 1971,2000 Barry A. Warsaw
| The huge hippopotamus hasn't a hair
| on the back of his wrinkly hide;
| he carries the bulk of his prominent hulk
| rather loosely assembled inside.
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| The huge hippopotamus lives without care
| at a slow philosophical pace;
| as he wades in the mud with a lurch and a thump
| and a permanent grin on his face.