The First Time

Buddy & Max 10 – In the city

Everything must have had a, first time

Must learn to walk before you, can climb

            To do, something new

            Should not, bother you

Just because it is your, first time.

 

Buddy & Max went to the church picnic, with the man

It was in the city and it was hard to, understand

            How a park, in the city

            Could ever, be as pretty

As it was in the woods, on open land

 

Buddy & Max had been to town but never, the city

As they drove there it did not look, so pretty

            They were ready, to go back home

            Nowhere here they, wanted to roam

Buddy & Max thought everything looked, so dirty

 

There was an unfamiliar smell, in the air

A very strange odor from, somewhere

            It was not fresh air through, the trees

            That smell that comes with, a breeze

But the people they passed seem, not to care

 

Buddy & Max could see, trees ahead

“There is the park boys,” the man said

            Buddy & Max were, looking

            At all the people, cooking

Boy those people put out, a nice spread

 

As far as Buddy & Max, could tell

Using their best sense, of smell

            There was good, eating

            Ready for, treating

They were ready to stay here for, a spell

 

All of a sudden they heard the roar, of a lion

It was so loud Buddy & Max, started crying

            Then they saw cages, with critters

            That gave them, both jitters

Buddy & Max felt like they, were dying

 

Then the man said welcome to, the zoo

I’m sorry that they startled, you two

            These animals you must, stay away from

            The Zoo is where they live, it is their home

If you don’t be careful they may, eat you

 

Now just what kind of animals, are these

Buddy & Max wondered if, you please

            They never before had, to fear

            Of an animal getting, too near

Like as if they had some kind of, disease

 

Buddy & Max had forgotten about, the smell of food

They wanted to go home didn’t care, if it was rude

            To leave as soon as, they got here

            Because the animals gave, them a scare

By a lion they did not want, to be pursued

 

Then something got their, attention

It was their smell, detection

            BB-Q was in, the air

            Around here, somewhere

Buddy & Max and the man headed that, direction

 

Buddy & Max saw big long tables, of food

That really changed, their mood

            They were hungry, again

            They needed a, friend

To give them a treat they, conclude

 

Buddy & Max and the man, sat down

Next to each other on, the ground

            They had something, to eat

            They thought it was, real neat

To have a picnic in the city, downtown

 

Buddy & Max remembered the animals, in the cage

They must have been hungry they could hear, their rage

            The lion was roaring for his dinner

            He was not getting any thinner

With the lion Buddy & Max did not want, to engage

 

Buddy & Max were ready when the man said, “Let’s go home”

This day was very different but they were glad, they had come

            Buddy & Max learned that, they had it made

            Living with the man they were, never afraid

All three of them went back where they, had come from

 

Going to the city for, the first time

Even though they had to, stand in line

            They went home with, full tummies

            The man and the, two puppies

Are the main characters, in this rhyme