Elephant in Street

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There's an elephant

In the street

Like a taxi that's

Taken a wrong turn.

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I reach out to touch its
skin

Like a hide

And two dark men approach
me

With a bag.

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I think it's a knife

And panic

But it turns out to be a
banana

Which I can feed to the
elephant for 20 baht.

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The elephant grips the
banana

With its nose

Like fingers

And I think how easy

Happiness is

Yet often so hard to
find.