This poet has gotten to know a handful of these in her life ~ counts it an honor to have done so.

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Recorded Reading (1:24): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7l9g2xd0s2e91a7uaiam9/mama-hippo.mp3?rlkey=41kt5ahuwmyc0sb0bm062wy1o&dl=0

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mama hippo

don look like much do she
lil eyes en big ass
move slow mos time

got no reason ta hurry
not in this werl honey

well of all the wild
wild animals on that savannah
the one racks up more hominid
demise than any other

every damn year

that mama hippo

she don hurry
she jus there
right now

open up that mouth
all around you
NO escape
now wot muthafukka

mama hippo
wanta set down
she set on
down

that lion jus
get out the way

don mess
wid mama hippo

not if you wanta keep
livin in any kinda useta
sweetness nah yhear

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