Lazily Lumbering Hippopotamust

I’m just a lazily lumbering hippopotamust
I’m just a beast driven to madness by narcissistic lust
a beast controlled by instinct and antagonistic trust
and the hugeness of my ego is shrouded by the dust.

I catch myself wishing for a moment of climactic mirth,
I grow even more disgusting as I leave the moorings of my berth.
I feel the great immensity of all my gelatinous gray girth
as I slowly drag my bulk from out the water to the earth.

My filth stained teeth, so enormously…inconvenient
are picked crystal clean even while I ignore the scent.
Those who are able to avoid all my bitter disappointment
leave me crying as I face impotence in this final failing moment.

The drive o’ertakes me, I lumber across the plains,
my inability is enormous, my stumps they scream in pain.
I choose to roar in triumph, yet I know ‘tis all in vain,
for my very nature ties me down securely as a chain

My ears are absurd, their forgotten humble nature
a reminder that I am cursed to be an auditory failure.
Unable to hear the words that might save my very future
I’ll choose then to ignore them, if only to immure

each part of myself that I fear let see the light…
Those things which leave her crying in the middle of night
after I’ve stalled above her, finished exerting all my phallic might,
and I’ve forgotten that I was driven here by a mind that is not right.

I’ll leave her crying there on land and away is where I’ll slink
with this desire sated, at least part of me will shrink
Yet I’m left wondering why it is I can never stop and think
I realize the answer’s simple, while I’m standing on the brink.

It’s because I’m just a lazily lumbering hippopotamust
Just a beast, driven to madness by narcissistic lust,
a beast controlled by instinct and antagonistic trust
the hugeness of my ego no longer shrouded by the dust…