Hungry Hippos

“If you want to market this to that market, then you probably want the answers ready if an editor asks those questions.”

Holy crap! That would be exciting and intimidating at the same time.  I wouldn’t know what to say.

Truth be told, you could say I stole the idea from Shell Silverstein but I prefer to call it borrowing.  After all imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  He has a monkey poem that incorporates numbers and words in the same fashion. 

At first I didn’t get it and read and re-read it a bunch of times.  I think he was forcing the reader to think outside the box and stretch their imagination.  I guess that is what I am trying to accomplish as well.  Hopefully the stretch for imagination is easier to grasp and people won’t have to re-read it several times just to get it.

I thought people might get tripped up on five / hive and also ten /then.  I just thought this was a clever and (f)punny way to incorporate numbers and words.  I hope if this ever does get published, Shell Silverstein won’t sue me for plagiarism.  I like my poem better than his though.

Your help as always is greatly appreciated.