The Pair of Rabbits

The Pair of Rabbits

I don’t know if you know about

The pair of rabbits that I got,

And of the outcome coming out

(Of being one sex it was not.)

So being that the pair was free,

(And not so costly of upkeep)

Though for the pair’s fecundity

It came to be not very cheap)

Believing that the pair was male

(But wasn’t as a point of fact)

As one of them would be female

(I saw how a male did react)

Due to the games all rabbits play

(In circles as they tend to run)

Soon she came in a “family way”

For me to see all he had done. 

Therefore it wasn’t long before

A couple rabbits which I had

(By reproduction) became more

In order to be mom and dad.

So, I looked for this pet shop to

Relieve me of the heavy chore

Of tending to those fecund two

By the gestation of some more.

And ever since that pair I took

One to be underneath my roof

(I should proffer no cosy nook

Preferring to be rabbit-proof) 

For knowing all the habits they

Indulge in without self-control

The rabbits’(fore-or-after-play)

Off-limits is now on the whole;

Albeit God might have His plan

For reproduction of their kind,

Whatever thing which He began

No refuge will two rabbits find

Since I have had them up to here

(The habit’s of a rabbit’s that)

They’re far more likely to appear

Than disappear into your hat.