A big bus moves

Like a hippopotamus.

It starts quite slowly

For it weighs so very much.

It carries many people

Who are very glad to ride

Along the busy highway,

Safely tucked inside.

…

Special Warning:

Never ride

Inside

A hippopotabus!

…

Extra Question:

Busses are so big and heavy,

Who could ever

Catch a bus?!

– Steve Shoemaker, Urbana, IL

(Published some time in the early 1970s in “Award-Winning Poems” by the North Carolina Poetry Society.  Since, set to music and widely known by my children and grand children.  Ask any of us and we’ll sing it for you…)

Kind of makes you want to smile, huh!

The bus