Walter R. Brooks

Ode to the Pig: His Tail

  • My tail is not impressive
  • But it’s elegant and neat.
  • In length it’s not excessive —
  • I can’t curl it round my feet —
  • But it’s awfully expressive,
  • And its weight is not excessive,
  • And I don’t think it’s conceit,
  • Or foolishly possessive
  • If I state with some agressive–
  • ness that it’s the final master touch
  • That makes a pig complete.
© estate of Walter R. Brooks
The Collected Poems of Freddy the pig. New York, Knopf, 1953.