Pogo the Opossum’s Lesson
By Larry Linville
The little opossum was learning about life
He learned there was hardship and he learned there was strife.
Let’s call him Pogo quite a cute little guy
they taught him when in trouble to pretend to die.
Young Pogo thought there must be a better way
so he went to study in a school far away.
His family and friends questioned his decision
and they discouraged him with words of derision.
They said that their methods had worked a long time
“you fool your pursuers acting like a mime.”
He said that mimicking wouldn’t be the last word
the school had better methods he was assured.
He studied some systems of the martial arts
and memorized a lot of things in some charts.
He studied philosophy and logic as well
also a business course to learn how to sell.
He learned many methods to run fast as could be
and he even got good at climbing up a tree.
He shined as a student and was given straight A’s
after graduating he went home with new ways.
He approached the house and said, “Here I are!”
and just then was run over by a red car.
He had spent all that time studying in school
and then he was run over like he was a fool.
Now in case you think his ideas were wrong
and he should have stuck with the ways proven so long
let me suggest he had done the things that he should
and all of his training was so very good.
But his learning should have gone on all his life
even long after he had married a wife.
So the next time you think your life’s learning can stop
remember Pogo and don’t let study stop.
If he’d checked other courses with the registrars
the next might have been about avoiding cars.
This poem is so silly I guess now you know
but I hope it will help your study to grow.
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