Noah on his ark was fed up and tired for forty days
he had been mucking out after the animals tons of waste.
His arms ached
and his wife was useless claiming that she was seasick,
on an ocean that was flat as a mirror.
And there were the rabbits he had brought onboard
a hundred thinking of his pot
but when he tried to kill one of them
God had resentfully said no
only because he had disobeyed a little
and now there were thousands of them
jumping on the deck getting in the way.
Then in the morning mist Noah saw a seagull sitting on a rock
and as the sea sunk
the rock became an island
then a mountain,
in the afternoon his ark got stuck on a muddy plateau,
he dutifully let the animals out,
the rabbits too, sighed
went into the galley
cooking lentils for his supper.