The Chippendale Toad

She takes her quest along the winding road
and searches over land and shadowed vale.
The princess thinks a well-dressed horny toad

who's taste for Queen Anne chairs and Chippendale
instead of mushroom roofs could make a groom.
Too, his designer tongue would never fail

to make her ooo and ahh in any room:
the garden bath, rococo kitchen tile.
Her squeals of joy could drown a sonic boom

while furniture is shifted by the mile,
(and carpet burns are really not a joke!)
She'll never french him now, she likes his style,

the way he croaks at her and lights her smoke.
Besides, baroque-like kisses make her choke.


©2000 Peggy Putnam Owen





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