The Pangolin Is Very Odd

The Pangolin Is Very Odd

The pangolin is very odd,

Said to be unrelated to

Another creature, only God

Has anything with it to do;

Yet, even so, it still is there

And very like the dinosaur,

(If anything were anywhere

Albeit they’re not anymore)

The pangolin has no defense

Except its overlapping scales

That, albeit, by consequence,

This armor for it still avails.

Subsisting upon grubs and ants

Which it is able to sniff out

It slowly makes its own advance

Preceded by its sniffy snout.

Even six inches underground

In noticing what might exist—

If any earthworm’s to be found 

A pangolin has never missed.

I’m quite in awe of pangolins,

Considering each has a claw

That is the biggest ever since

I looked around and any saw,

While he can tear a log apart

For locating a termite’s nest,

Then, in a pile of gravel start

By excavating his own nest, 

Where he can burrow in so well,

By turning to the world his back

(Though he can’t anyone compel)

For self defense he has a knack.