Songs About Life and Brighter Things Yet XVIII
There are strange creatures in the zoo, Like emu, zebra, auk and gnu, But stranger creatures have I seen Riding in a limousine.
Samuel Hoffenstein
There are strange creatures in the zoo, Like emu, zebra, auk and gnu, But stranger creatures have I seen Riding in a limousine.
At first this sounds like a playful list: a zoo has odd animals such as the emu, zebra, auk, and gnu. But the speaker has seen something stranger — not in a cage, but riding in a limousine. The joke is that privileged, chauffeured people can seem more exotic or absurd than any animal on display.
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