Pistol Shrimp

By JP Perumba de Puthenveetil

What is jumping?

Well when you add 2 to 3

And can’t smell citrus

The camels get loose

Then taken by bandits

These bandits move fast

But you’ve gotta go softly

Lest you wake up the tomatoes

That drink dinos with their coffee

We open with a play pen

No ball pit to be found

Your snap peas are at home

But your shampoo is abound

Like the soap that the Pope

Gives his people

To give them hope

It’s time to get back

Before your veggies are broke

At the end of the year

The victor is finally declared

Head chairman of the third shelf

In that cabinet upstairs

Bring back those balloons

One soldier calls

You can’t eat rubber

Unless you’re at least 54 feet tall

Now I hope that I’ve answered all your questions

Young Roderick

Because what is jumping really?

But a series of swift nonsense