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Sixty percent airship
Almost half submarine,
Shaped more like a sausage
Than a liver or spleen.
Hung from a zeppelin
The S.S. Sassafras
Is lighter than water
With lighter-than-air gas.
To go up or go down
More or less helium
Is pumped to its balloon
Or
tanks aluminium.
Sometimes it’s submerged
Under waves, foam and spray
Sometimes it is airborne
O’er the surface to sway.
It’s pulled by propellers
Flown and steered by a crew,
In water it’s pushed by
A single aft screw.
Tourists fill the hull
To peer out at the seals
And sea lions and seagulls
And socializing eels.
As the sub breaks water
Like a whale or a shark
Its guests dine and toast
Until long after dark.
My similar idea
River_20Balloon
Great minds... [sartep, Jun 27 2005]
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Don't tie me to a mast. Pop-rivet me to a gunwale. |
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A bun is due for this stanza, Genuis!!!
"Tourists fill the hull
To peer out at the seals
And sea lions and seagulls
And socializing eels." |
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One ticket for the maiden voyage
please. |
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A submarine on the Sargasso Sea
Might get stuck in the reeds
Because sargassum aren't a fish specie
But are very thick sea weeds! |
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Sassafras albidum, or so it is said,
Makes a good herbal remedy, to clear the head,
It's also the source of the taste of root beer,
But the oil is carcinogenic, I hear. |
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Well writ, [FarmerJohn], you master 'baker,
Great charmer of clocks and 'bakery fakir,
How can I resist, but to give you a bun?,
It's ideas like this that make HB such fun. |
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