Big Beasts
I am a very bulbous beast,
round and large and smug.
Heavy-bellied, viscous, gelid,
I'm a slug.
I am a beast of giant girth,
with hide both tough and thick.
Bold and bloody, I'm your buddy,
I'm a tick.
Roar! I am a beast with horns,
to make you quake and quail:
a hardened case, and hard to face.
I'm a snail.
Beastly, that is what one is,
colossal, fierce, and fat.
And what one does is cause a buzz:
I am a gnat.
One of us you must appoint
to be your Lion Of Sheba.
In gross good cheer, we hail you, dear
amoeba.
