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Birds #7
(This is a Humorous Educational "What Am I" Poem)

Some of us live up in the far north where it gets very cold.
Some also live far down south where it's colder there so I've been told.
In thousands we'll all sun ourselves as we take up miles on the beach.
We're safer in numbers and to all of our children, this is something we teach.

We try to swim as fast as we can to escape the killer whales gnashing teeth.

Whales have a size to their advantage and they sneak up on us from beneath.
My favorite color for a shirt is white and my suit is adorned with black tails.
Even though we look like little killer whales we still get eaten so the disguise fails.

We all dress exactly the same and we all look like each other too.
I might have met the same old bird yesterday and I still have to ask, "Who are you?"
There are just so many of us with names all the way from a to z.
It's hard to try and distinguish just who all our brothers and sisters might be.

We never fly so we're just thousands of heads bobbing along the shore.
We trod and we wobble back and forth all wishing that we could soar.
It seems we're too fat and that we'll never fly if we keep eating like we do.
If you weighed the weight that we do well you probably couldn't fly too.

I'm not a vegetarian and I don't eat things like corn and wheat.
Sea food is our healthy diet and that's mostly what I like to eat.
I'm a fantastic swimmer and my acrobatics will simply amaze anyone.
After a long swim and some raw fish dinner we all lounge in the warm sun.

I look funny when I walk the way the rest of us waddling creatures do.
You would walk funny like us too if you knew how hard the winds here blew.
Sometimes the snow blows so hard we all huddle just to try and keep warm.
We'll stay like that for hours and hours as we wait for the end of the storm.

There are a lot of poor creatures that don't ever have a choice in what they do.
Greedy humans come and throw nets on us and make us live in a zoo.
It's sometimes a real shame the conditions you humans make us live in.
Cages are not for birds like us; we all need to be free little Penguins.

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