The Platypid Zeus,
while upon the bumpy back of his mother’s moose
sent souls riding atop lightning bolts
into human corpses scattering Greece and New Zealand
and their nostrils flared
and they rose like flowers given water after a trite drought
as individuals
platypi
infiltrated the human race
and swum in lagoons until the CIA,
under the influence of baleful Juno
dropped a pail full of cyanide into the Oceanic reservoir
and the platypi had to escape and hide
amongst the human race;
pressured
never to show that tweak of a beak
never to share the secrets of their mammalian eggs
never to uncover the webs at bottom of their legs,
and those that did
were gotten rid of stat
by Cointelpro and spies who pried
platypus nipples off with monkey wrenches
and sucked brains out with blushing plungers
so their young could no longer lap
from uncapped mammaries,
all the platypi had to flee
and scatter amongst well-hugged trees
in dilapidated forests
but J. Edgar Hoover,
since Aeneas was slain by the Freece,
has vowed even from his totalitarian pink death bed
to seek out all remaining platypi impostors
and drown them in the seas of Gnelm
that he may more strongly enforce the realm
of zombies and capitalists
money and its many interests