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I thought the guy dressed up like a kingfisher Didn’t really look like a kingfisher His beak too long His legs not yellow enough But still he did a pretty good job of diving into the water And coming up with a guy dressed up like a fish Even though his fins looked a little too stiff to me (No wonder the kingfisher caught him) And the bull facing that matador (who even had a pigtail like the one Hemingway kept mentioning -- Oh, I mean the real man not the man dressed as a bull) He just looked too scared for a bull Well that’s what I thought And I’ve been to a lot of bullfights Real bulls got more bravery than that Sure they’re confused But I’ve never seen one turn tail and run Oh yeah -- and he forgot to put a tail on his bull suit All in all it was a wash wasn’t it Wetter than the guy in the kingfisher suit. Still it was nice for us to dress up in animal costumes To give the animals at least one day to have a day off Maybe next year we’ll figure it out better Both in our costuming and their cries
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Sep 20, 2012
Sep 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM UTC
The Day The Humans Got Dressed Up In Animal Costumes (To Give the Real Animals a Rest)
I thought the guy dressed up like a kingfisher Didn’t really look like a kingfisher His beak too long His legs not yellow enough But still he did a pretty good job of diving into the water And coming up with a guy dressed up like a fish Even though his fins looked a little too stiff to me (No wonder the kingfisher caught him) And the bull facing that matador (who even had a pigtail like the one Hemingway kept mentioning -- Oh, I mean the real man not the man dressed as a bull) He just looked too scared for a bull Well that’s what I thought And I’ve been to a lot of bullfights Real bulls got more bravery than that Sure they’re confused But I’ve never seen one turn tail and run Oh yeah -- and he forgot to put a tail on his bull suit All in all it was a wash wasn’t it Wetter than the guy in the kingfisher suit. Still it was nice for us to dress up in animal costumes To give the animals at least one day to have a day off Maybe next year we’ll figure it out better Both in our costuming and their cries
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john-macayeal
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Sep 20, 2012
Sep 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM UTC
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