Poems of the Week

Cockatoo-Too-Munch

by Julia Griffin

Yellow-crested cockatoos have already caused $80,000 in damage to Australia’s national broadband network wiring.—The Guardian

That bugaboo
The cockatoo
Delights to chew
The network through.
An out(r)age, yup,
To think a sup-
Ping cockatoo
Can cock it up.