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Poems & Texts

Strange as it seems, the smallest mammal

Is the shrew, and not the camel.

And that is all I ever knew,

Or wish to know, about the shrew.

(Ogden Nash)

If we could ask the pygmy shrew what it thinks of its larger relative,

I think that it would bristle indignantly and squeak:

"Are you referring to those stupid lumbering brutes

who are always in the way?"

The common shrew, however, when questioned,

would look blank at first, and then ask in a guarded tone:

"I say, you don't really believe in those, do you?"

(Peter Crowcroft, 1957)

I WANT TO BE A SHREW!

Have you ever considered a shrew,

A 1000 and one things you could do

So small and So furry and incredibly cute

The kind of thing you could find in your boot

And just consider, perhaps you knew

There's stacks of things that rhyme with shrew.

Tiny little hands and a long long nose

And because they are furry they dont need any clothes

They dont have many problems except when the're sad

But being a shrew can't be all that bad.

Ok they can't sing and perhaps they can't dance

Or maybe they could if someone gave them a chance

But they'd never play Wembley, even if they dare

Cos shrews are so small

You wouldn't know they were there

So whenever your lonely and feeling so sad

Just think about shrews and the life that they had

And perhaps in your next life, if dreams can come true

You might be a pitpony or a talented shrew

(Shrew pert Bear, 1997) (from the Canary Islands)

Two possible places for ShrewNuts to spend their holidays or to retire:

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Dr. Werner Haberl. Address: Hamburgerstrasse 11, A-1050 Vienna, Austria.

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