Grimbeau

After the angel dust

shaving the tiger proved easier

than Murdoch had thought.

And, as it turned out,

what Chadwick had posited

was later proven true,

it was the skin and not just

the fur that was patterned.

they were all the same

just get over it

Next week a Zebra,

she decided.

‘ The giraffe might prove to be a tall order,’

said the Indian rubber man,

deftly reading her train of thought.

How they chortled

that evening over their

Barley wine and Camembert