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The giant metal toad is no longer with us.
Garret Schuelke
SourceLicence:Public domain
The giant metal toad is no longer with us.
Three short lines announce a loss in a strangely formal way. "No longer with us" is the language of obituaries, the phrase people use when someone has died. Here it is applied to a "giant metal toad," and that mismatch is where the poem gets both its humor and its feeling.
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